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Top 3 Legal Documents that Caregivers and Seniors Need
Advocating for your loved is honorable, their care and safety depend on it. Mental capacity is incredibly important for this process to be successful. Start Now! In my view, here are the top 3 most important documents to have in order. Although you can find all of these forms on-line or at an office supply…
Care Tips for Dementia and Sundowner Syndrome
At least 40 million Americans each year suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders, and an additional 20 million experience occasional sleeping problems. Sleeping problems occur in almost all people with mental disorders, including those with depression and Alzheimer’s. Sleep affects our daily functioning and our physical and mental health in many ways that we are…
A Poem for Caregivers
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world…
Alzheimer’s Caregiver Guest Blogger, Lisa Hirsch
My mom has had Alzheimer’s disease for probably the last five to seven years. It’s hard to actually know when the disease got a hold of her. There were certainly things that my mom said and did that stared me right in my face that I seemed to have ignored. Or should I say I…
Seniors’ Secrets to Long Lasting Love
Scientists have often wondered why humans live so much longer than other mammals. Even before modern medicine, human’s lives were quite long by mammalian standards. Anthropologists speculate that, during prehistory, the advantage for humans who lived long was that they were able to increase the likelihood of their younger relatives surviving by passing on useful…
Love and Aging: The Notebook Encapsulates Both
With Valentines Day around the corner, I am dedicating this post to one of the great love stories of the past decade. The Notebook brings up some great points about dealing with dementia, aging and the beauty of caregiving for a loved one. The ‘older’ Noah, played by James Garner, does a fabulous job of…
