Whether accompanying an elder home for a holiday or bringing them back to your own home, traveling can be daunting to say the least. Having traveled with my father several times during the years that he lived with me, I learned several things that I’d never do again. 1. Do it alone! Whether by plane, [...]
My remembrances of my father always included his statement that he “had a bum leg”. Apparently when I was just a baby, he was working for the timber board in Canada and had fallen on a boom of logs which caused him to break his back. The medical solution at that time was to take [...]
35 Questions to Ask When Searching for a Care Facility …….in no particular order by Shelley Webb and Tonia Boterf Exactly what services are offered? How often does the staff change or turn over? How many R.N.s are available on each unit and on each shift. Do they utilize LPNs /LVNs ? Who administers the medications? What [...]
On Golden Pond – a Lesson in Dementia Awareness? by Shelley Last night I watched On Golden Pond starring Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn. It also featured Jane Fonda. I ended up crying for an hour. I hadn’t seen the movie since it’s release in 1981 and I had forgotten that dementia (although the word was [...]
I was visiting with a friend last evening. The weather was lovely and we were enjoying an evening of conversation on the patio: firming up the menus for 2 week-end barbecues and discussing how to entertain some visitors from Australia that I would be receiving the next week. So it was quite a long evening. Over the [...]
It’s no secret that communicating with parents who suffer from dementia is difficult, especially in the latter stages of the disease. So what can we do to communicate our love to a person who may not even remember who we are? The answer may be to look at ways in which they expressed their love to [...]
During the last weeks and days of my father’s life, family and friends came to visit him and pay their last respects. Unfortunately, my daughter was not able to visit him before my father moved into the last stages of dementia. A negative experience at the hospital caused him to experience delirium and then to decline [...]
Media at the scene where a 66 year old woman wandered and froze to death. Credit: Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail Last night, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a 66 year woman who had been suffering from dementia froze to death because she wandered from her home and was not found in time. That’s right…………..she froze [...]
This morning I received an e-mail from a caregiver whose grandmother lives in an assisted living facility. ”Grandma’s” son had been bringing flowers and plants to help brighten up her room but was recently asked not to do so anymore. Here is the e-mail from the grandson: “My Grandma lives in an assisted living facility [...]
The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 29, 2010 Presidential Proclamation–National Family Caregivers Month ——- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Every day, family members, friends, neighbors, and concerned individuals across America provide essential attention and assistance to their loved ones. Many individuals in [...]
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