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What's it Like to Have Alzheimer's?

seniorliving wrote 23 hours ago: Imagine that you have traveled to a foreign country like Turkey.  You’ve gone with a tour gro … more »

Tags: Tips for Care Givers, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Care, alzheimer's disease, dementia, confusion, disorientation, memory care, Self Care

Making Life Better through Senior Care

seniorliving wrote 1 month ago: One of the prime concerns when new care givers are hired at Seniors’ Choice at Home is that th … more »

Tags: Success Through Relationships, relationship, Employees, doctor appointment, picnic, care giver continuity

Happy $#;@%=(*%&;} Mother's Day1 comment

Susie wrote 2 months ago: Yup…. Happy $#;@%=(*%&;} Mother’s Day. From my children, I received lots of hugs and … more »

Tags: My News., Dreams, kids, Miscellaneous, Family, rants, MOTHERS DAY

Coming home1 comment

lookingforbeauty wrote 3 months ago: Heather sent a package down with her husband when he came to Vancouver for a doctor specialists appo … more »

Tags: Dying, Life Experience, daily life, Family, Mother, Memory, Living, Beauty, Memories

I Live Because I Communicate4 comments

spiritdances wrote 3 months ago: I know many of you are wondering how I type. I will share what it is like for me.  I was able to t … more »

Tags: Assume intelligence, Facilitated communication, Home Health Care, PCAS, Personal Care, Rett Syndrome

OT & Occupation - Experiences of People with Alzheimer's Disease

sjennings29 wrote 4 months ago:    Awareness through interaction in everyday occupations: Experiences of people with Alzheimer … more »

Tags: Older People, OT - Occupational Therapy, dementia, Therapy, Alzheimer's, Mental Health, Occupational Therapy, quality of life, elderly

Silence

lookingforbeauty wrote 6 months ago: Kay pulled the duvet closer to her chin, turned restlessly onto her side and kept her eyes shut. It … more »

Tags: aging, compassion, daily life, Family, Freedom, Friendship, Life, Life Experience, Life - Work

The rag tag choir or The road to Hell

lookingforbeauty wrote 8 months ago: Do you remember, way back, that three elderly ladies full of vim and spirit came to visit my mother … more »

Tags: aging, Beauty, care giving, compassion, daily life, death, Dying, Family, Friendship

Old hurts and frustrations

lookingforbeauty wrote 8 months ago: Heather and her Dauntless Husband helped me tirelessly to vacate all the chattels from Mother … more »

Tags: aging, care giving, compassion, daily life, death, downsizing, ethics, Family, Life Experience

Amnesty

lookingforbeauty wrote 8 months ago: “Read it to me from the beginning again” she commanded. I sighed inwardly. The repetitio … more »

Tags: aging, alzheimer's disease, Beauty, care giving, continuum, daily life, death, Family, Forgetfulness

Potatoes in the Geraniums

lookingforbeauty wrote 9 months ago: She came in the back door holding a small geranium plant pinched between two fingers. I could tell b … more »

Tags: aging, alzheimer's disease, care giving, compassion, Family, Forgetfulness, Friendship, Geriatrics, Life

Messing with feminine bits

lookingforbeauty wrote 9 months ago: Every crossroad is an orifice that pulsates white or red lights into the dark conveyor belt of a hig … more »

Tags: aging, Beauty, care giving, compassion, daily life, Family, Friendship, Life, Life Experience

Surgery

lookingforbeauty wrote 10 months ago: I suppose in this day and age, it’s not so strange, but I felt as if I had been hit by somethi … more »

Tags: aging, care giving, compassion, daily life, Family, Friendship, Life, Life Experience, Living

Travels with Mama 3 - Westward ho!3 comments

lookingforbeauty wrote 10 months ago: Trier was the turning point. We were going west now and on the return side of our journey. We needed … more »

Tags: aging, Beauty, care giving, compassion, daily life, Family, Life, Life Experience, Living

Travels with Mama 2

lookingforbeauty wrote 10 months ago: We stayed in a two star hotel in Rheims. It was deceptively large. Light grey stonework arched over … more »

Tags: aging, Art Work, Beauty, care giving, compassion, daily life, Family, Friendship, Life

Travels with Mama1 comment

lookingforbeauty wrote 10 months ago: It was 1989. I hankered to go to Europe again, having left it abruptly at the time of my father … more »

Tags: aging, Art Work, care giving, compassion, daily life, ethics, Family, Friendship, Life

Going to Strasbourg. Coming home to Nancy

lookingforbeauty wrote 10 months ago: We were hurtling down the highway at one hundred and forty kilometres and hour. In the back of my mi … more »

Tags: aging, care giving, compassion, daily life, Family, Friendship, Life, Life Experience, Living

We’ve turned a corner, if only a small one…1 comment

pellmel wrote 11 months ago: The notes he so wished would support the position that his perceptions and suspicions were justified … more »

Tags: Delusional disorder, Denial, Depression, HOPE, Human Issues, Life, Love, Marriage, Mental Disorders

Day three: The saga continues…

pellmel wrote 11 months ago: I’ve been devoting my past week of vacation to convincing him that he MUST continue along this roa … more »

Tags: Delusional disorder, Denial, Depression, HOPE, Human Issues, Life, Love, Marriage, Mental Disorders


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