Improve Balance and Gait Balance is crucial. It keeps you on your feet and moving forward. Physical therapy is a great way to help improve your balance and decrease your risk of falling. While falling is a danger that many seniors face, it can be abigger issue for dementia patients. Physi...
Happy Valentines Day to you and yours! I wrote this poem about me and my husband! True love It must be From above. It’s like no other It’s been almost 23 Years and that almost Brings me to more Tears. We’ve been through So much. But we love Each other so! I’m so lucky ...
But not mom, nope, she’s inside breathing the same air (did I mention she has an aversion to opening windows-“let’s the dust in”) and her only companions can be found on the television. She cancels more hair salon appointments than she keeps (and those are only every six weeks) ...
Maureen Bradley, a specialist with A Place for Mom, has advised families on senior care for 20 years. More info It can be painful to witness the deterioration of a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or any other type of dementia. Learn how to talk to someone with dementia and how demen...
For example, one caregiver compared themselves with the Job, stating, “Job, he keeps saying ‘I didn’t do anything wrong,’… [my husband] nor I had done anything to bring this dementia on us”. Another compared their experience with Joseph, explaining, “[Joseph] was, you know his ...