Alzheimer’s Disease

Finding Your Support in the Caregiving Journey

   “I’ll deal with that later. There’s too much to make sense of right now.”      If you are new to the role of caregiver, it’s tempting to take this attitude about getting support. Your elder needs assistance, but probably you’ve already started the process of getting medical backup for them. After all, you […]

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“We Got a Dementia Diagnosis. What now?”

You’ve been dreading today for weeks. Since you first noticed signs which disturbed you, since you brought your elder to their GP, since you went to a specialist for testing. Today you are sitting in the office waiting for results, and your stomach is doing that grinding thing. Then the doctor tells you your elder

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How is Dementia Like an Umbrella? Understanding the Basics

Recently Dan, my fiancé, had to go from the house to his car in the visitor’s parking lot through drenching rain. Not the visitor’s parking lot across the street, which had been full, but the one much farther down the street. Digging through the various coats on the coat rack, I found an almost forgotten

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