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If you have a dementia caregiver in your life, you have two jobs: Reduce their stress and make them feel supported. It’s not to fix and it’s definitely not to add to their stress. Make them feel supported and reduce stress. That’s it. Seems simple, huh? I get that it’s not. On one hand, all …
Mom’s life with dementia is the ultimate team effort. Lindsay, my uncle, Mom’s friends, the wonderful staff at her assisted living community and I are all part of Mom's team--with important roles to play. Mom’s demeanor is our scoreboard. Her smiles and laughs are the trophies we play for. In …
How can there be beauty in dementia? Those two words don’t belong in the same sentence. Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia--they’re all uniquely ugly conditions. Each one wages a dastardly war on the person living with the disease and all who love …
Medication management in Alzheimer's care is the ultimate trial and error exercise. There is no cure. The name of the game is slowing disease progression and managing symptoms. Prescriptions are written based on hypotheses and degrees of certainty, not on absolutes. There are none of those and …
