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Dementia in Real Time
Sometimes the ones suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's seem to be on the inside looking out. We try to ease their
confusion and bring the outside in.
AND when we need someone who understands, we come here. We help each other scream, cry, and sometimes just laugh till we can get back up and keep on keeping on.
God love us all, we have to laugh to keep from crying!
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High POint Low Point of your Day
Just wondering what is the high point and low point of your day dealing with dementia.
Let's Start with Friday!
Let's Start with Friday!
Alzheimer's experimental drug offers hope.
Alzheimer's: Experimental drug offers hope.
Just passing the word on. It's in the news. view link
Rose
Just passing the word on. It's in the news. view link
Rose
Alzheimer's--Heaven on Earth
Watch this video on Alzheimer's caring. Here is a woman who cared for her mother, then decided to open her own facility because her mother kept getting thrown out of facilities. They couldn't handle the combativeness. Here Judy Berry shows in her own home how the ratio of patients to aide, means so much. How treating a person with dementia is more than a sleeping pill, or an anti anxiety pill. She shows compassion and dignity and changes in behavior. Watch and learn. She's an Angel among us.
Rose
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Alzheimer's Caregiver Lament-- This is Not the Per
I hear these words---this is not the person I knew, and I am greatly saddened.
In order to communicate effectively with a person suffering from Alzheimer's disease you need to come to an understanding that they are now living in a new world--The Alzheimer's World.
I read this wonderful article and wanted to pass it on to others hoping it will help in some way.http://www.alzheimersreadingroom. com/2009/11/alzheimers-caregiver-lament- this-is-not.html
In order to communicate effectively with a person suffering from Alzheimer's disease you need to come to an understanding that they are now living in a new world--The Alzheimer's World.
I read this wonderful article and wanted to pass it on to others hoping it will help in some way.http://www.alzheimersreadingroom. com/2009/11/alzheimers-caregiver-lament- this-is-not.html
Pay less for medications??
Some of the dementia meds are soooo expensive...I found a website that is dedicated to finding you either less expensive meds or grants for medication...http://www.needymeds.org/ - It is called NeedMeds.org
Please use it or pass it on - it is important that people are able to get what they need.
Please use it or pass it on - it is important that people are able to get what they need.
A good nursing home story
If you want to read a feel good nursing home story, read this one by Laura Bramley. view link
What an excellent article. Laura summed it up with this: "I felt as if I was in someone's home, and I was tempted to flop down in a chair and put my feet up on the coffee table as if I was at my parent's house. I've never felt that way in a dementia care facility before."
Wouldn't it be great if we had Lakeview ranches all over the USA.
Thank you Laura, and thank you Judy Berry for giving your all.
Rose
What an excellent article. Laura summed it up with this: "I felt as if I was in someone's home, and I was tempted to flop down in a chair and put my feet up on the coffee table as if I was at my parent's house. I've never felt that way in a dementia care facility before."
Wouldn't it be great if we had Lakeview ranches all over the USA.
Thank you Laura, and thank you Judy Berry for giving your all.
Rose
Nursing Homes
For you members who have loved ones or friends in nursing homes who take maintenance medication, how are they billed for their copays or full pays of the drugs they are on.
My dad died in 1997 and I know how carefully we had to watch what the drug company billed us for medications ordered and sent directly to the nursing home.
Please let me know how this is handled now.
Thanks.
My dad died in 1997 and I know how carefully we had to watch what the drug company billed us for medications ordered and sent directly to the nursing home.
Please let me know how this is handled now.
Thanks.
Aricept
I need some input.
My soon to be 87 year old mother has been on Aricept for several years. During the past few months both her mental and physical health have been deteriorating. She has many of aricepts side effects (headache, diahrehha, nausea). She is losing her memory of the past few years and cannot remember what she had for dinner an hour before. The owner of her group home consulted with the group home doctor and it has been suggested that she should be taken off aricept since it is losing it's effectiveness. This drug costs $200.00 each month. Does anyone have any experience --positive or negative as to what happens once a person is taken off aricept? Please let me know. Thanks!
My soon to be 87 year old mother has been on Aricept for several years. During the past few months both her mental and physical health have been deteriorating. She has many of aricepts side effects (headache, diahrehha, nausea). She is losing her memory of the past few years and cannot remember what she had for dinner an hour before. The owner of her group home consulted with the group home doctor and it has been suggested that she should be taken off aricept since it is losing it's effectiveness. This drug costs $200.00 each month. Does anyone have any experience --positive or negative as to what happens once a person is taken off aricept? Please let me know. Thanks!
What a difference a day makes!
For the past month, there has been little communication from Ma Katie. She couldn't even wheel her wheelchair and she had been quite active in going from hall to hall and checking in other's rooms, often uninvited <:
Today, she came out of her stupor and was back to roaming the halls.
She still did not know us and rolled out while we sat in her room, on to more important matters (: But at least she was alive in her eyes.
We know not what tomorrow will bring but for today, it was good.
Today, she came out of her stupor and was back to roaming the halls.
She still did not know us and rolled out while we sat in her room, on to more important matters (: But at least she was alive in her eyes.
We know not what tomorrow will bring but for today, it was good.
