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Alzheimer's Video a Powerful Reminder
posted 1 day ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
High Tech Systems Help Keep Track of Wanderers
posted 4 days ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Wandering is a huge issue for many caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease. The biggest problem may be that one never knows when the urge to wander will hit the person with the disease. Even if the care receiver has never wandered before, wh...
"I Still Do" Alzheimer's Book Powerful Imagery
posted 6 days ago, updated 1 minute later by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Dear Readers: There are books, and there are books. I get many sent to me to review, way more than I can give attention to. However, when a publicist asked permission to send, “I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer’s,” by Judith Fox to me, ...
Mind Body Medicine: Can This Help a Caregiver?
posted 7 days ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Dr. Dean Shrock is convinced that mind and body work together when it comes to health. Two of his books, Doctor’s Orders: Go Fishing and Why Love Health: Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine are interesting treatises explaining the science (hard and soft) be...
Living Life With Dementia
posted 9 days ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Alzheimer’s Stories Reduce Stigma of Dementia
posted 11 days ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Brilliant people get Alzheimer's and other dementias. Three rather public figures that come to mind are recent Nobel prize winner, physicist Charles K. Kao, retired psychologist, professor and Alzheimer's activist Richard Taylor and the husband of...
Tracking Device for Wandering Elders
posted 14 days ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Wandering is and important issue when we are caring for someone with dementia, especially of the Alzheimer’s type. Now, the National Alzheimer’s Association has an electronic monitoring system that can help you find your loved one if he or she wan...
Dental Care for Elders Important but Frustrating
posted 17 days ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Most dentists stress the importance of dental care for elders. Realism for caregivers comes into play here, as many of our elders get so they can't be transported and lifted into a dental chair for major work. Some will fight even having their mou...
Conversations about End of Life Issues
posted 21 days ago by MindingOurElders | 0 comments
Sex and death. It’s odd that those two topics should bring so much anxiety to parents and children. But, there you have it. One – sex – is about the beginning of life. The other – death – is about the end. Both are a part of the life cycle but if ...
Conversing With a Person Who Has Dementia: Tips
posted 25 days ago by MindingOurElders | 2 comments
After my dad had surgery to correct increasing fluid build up behind scar tissue from a World War II brain injury, he came out of the surgery totally demented. Whether the dementia came from a combination of his age and the scar tissue, anesthetic...
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