How to Bring Your Elder Purpose as Part of their Care
Purpose in an elder’s life may be the most important aspect.
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Dementia
How to Successfully Navigate a Diagnosis of Dementia
A diagnosis of dementia is like entering a foreign country. Maybe you’ve heard rumours about the sights or the people or even the food. But without some research, how do you know what’s true? When you are travelling, making mistakes sometimes leads to new adventures. Not so with a serious diagnosis. Today, we’ll look at
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Dementia is Not All Memory Loss. Symptoms You Might Not have Considered
Dementia is much more than memory loss.
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How Do Social and Medical Care Get Married?
I made a valiant effort to keep the horror off my face. It was the yearly care conference for this resident and her four children sat in our meeting room with the doctor, physio, dietary staff and others. The purpose was to review her care plan and tweak it if needed. I had just explained
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How to Find Blessing in the Burden of Care
Some blessings are obvious, but some can take me longer to recognize. My story: The blessing of Jean I worked at a retirement home when I first met Jean. She lived in an independent apartment upstairs and once-a-month she’d call to book a room for her church meeting. Always gracious on the phone, she remained
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How to Celebrate When a Disaster is Possible
When dementia makes the outcome of celebrations unsure, how do you cope?
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Six Reasons To Say “No” To A Hospital Visit
“We can’t deal with this problem here. She needs to go to hospital.” They are all looking at you. The doctor, the nurses, the care staff, your family. As your mother’s care partner and power of attorney, the next decision is yours. Maybe she has pneumonia which isn’t responding to the antibiotics she’s been given,
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How to Honour Your Elders With Dementia With a Sense of Purpose
My favourite times at work were when I could step away from the computer, the meetings and all the other responsibilities and sit and chat with the ladies. We were doing just that one afternoon when the conversation turned to Christmas cake. A long-ago memory bubbled to the surface for me, of a time as
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When a Caregiver is Sick. How to Plan for
Sheryl couldn’t believe she hadn’t thought of this before. She’d been caring for Dan for over two years and never once had it occurred to her. “What would happen if I got sick?” She ate healthy, slept reasonably well and kept her stress as low as someone could who dealt with dementia every day. She
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Pandemic Mental Health–How to Focus on What You Can Control
Sheryl slumped against the back of the couch. The world felt like such a scary place. New variants of the virus, thousands of deaths in India and now the U.K.’s numbers were escalating. Her own community faced a lockdown which the government had extended before the last one ended. Were the schools safe for her
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