by External Article | Sep 1, 2023 | Caring for a Client, For Friends & Family, Long Term Caregiving |
“Rothman was charged with health-care fraud and health-care fraud conspiracy. He faced up to 20 years in prison. Four of the indicted defendants pleaded guilty, and four, including Rothman, chose to go to trial. Shortly before the jury was set to assemble,... 
by External Article | Jun 13, 2023 | Caring for a Grandparent, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Relative, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finances, Long Distance Caregiving, Occasional Caregiving |
It is among a cluster of studies that point to financial problems as a possible warning sign — rather than just the fallout — of cognitive decline. Carole Shepard, a self-employed geriatric care manager in suburban Pittsburgh, says it’s best to start planning... 
by External Article | Jun 6, 2023 | Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving |
In our different ways, my father and I were both suffering from diseases of forgetfulness. Though I didn’t yet have a name for what was happening to him, there was some comfort in the thought that I understood a little of what he suffered. I knew the terror of lost... by External Article | May 29, 2023 | 24/7 Caregiving, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving |
In 2007, I was suddenly plunged into the role of caregiver for my then 75-year-old father, who had vascular dementia. His short-term memory was severely impaired, as were his judgment and reasoning skills. At the outset, I knew very little about dementia and next to... 
by External Article | Mar 19, 2023 | Baby Boom Generation, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Long Term Caregiving |
It’s been nearly four years since Russ Kellogg’s wife, Frances, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Since then he’s been caring for her on a full-time basis at their home in Estey’s Bridge, a rural community 18 kilometres north of... 
by External Article | Mar 13, 2023 | 24/7 Caregiving, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finding Caregiver Support, Long Term Caregiving |
Cindy McCaffery provides support to her husband John who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia more than a decade ago, at age 48. Over the years, she has come to understand the importance of active living, and its apparent role in slowing down brain disease... 
by External Article | Jan 8, 2023 | 24/7 Caregiving, Art, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Long Distance Caregiving, Short Term Caregiving |
In March 2020, Lori traveled to Florida to help Audrey move into an assisted living facility, a plan that was immediately upended with the arrival of nationwide lockdowns. In the next three months, Lori lived with Audrey in her apartment, sleeping in the same bed with... 
by External Article | Oct 11, 2022 | 24/7 Caregiving, Caring for a Grandparent, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving, Millennial Generation |
“My mom was taking care of her mom, who had Alzheimer’s, [and] not telling anybody how hard it was or that she needed help, or that it was completely stressing her out,” Revere says. “And then it became about me coming home to be in a house... 
by External Article | Jun 22, 2022 | Caring for a Client, For Friends & Family |
“I hope you’ll still laugh at my jokes when I have dementia,” I said to my husband Ryan on an evening walk not long after my thirty-fourth birthday. It was the first time I had tried out my new resolution to stop saying “if I get dementia” and to start referring to... 
by External Article | Jun 21, 2022 | Caring for a Parent |
At first, my mother, the poet Anne Atik, had seemed just ordinarily confused. Then, very gradually, the confusion took on a pathological aspect. She awoke in the middle of the night thinking it was morning. On what turned out to be her last Eurostar journey, she... 
by External Article | Oct 14, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Silent generation |
“In my family, voting was the highest honor of citizenship,” his daughter, Judith Kozlowski, said. “You owed it to your country to vote; that was always the message.” It remains important to Mr. Kozlowski, now a resident of an independent living facility in Chevy... 
by External Article | Sep 25, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Long Distance Caregiving, Long Term Caregiving |
My father’s father talked to everyone, including the figurines on the sideboard, and he sometimes saw the ships he’d worked on as chief engineer sail across the field behind our neighbour’s house. My mother’s mother stopped speaking, also to her husband, who she... 
by External Article | Jun 23, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving, Millennial Generation |
I was 27 when I left my first full-time job to care for my mother when she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2013. So many millennials are still recovering from the recession of 2008 and have already struggled with finding a job, establishing credit, or... 
by Guest Author | Jun 2, 2020 | Caring for a Grandparent, Millennial Generation, Occasional Caregiving |
A month before my grandfather William passed away, I sat beside him in the hospital, pushing a roll of uneaten sushi around a plastic plate. The rest of my family had gone in search of coffee while I remained behind, an increasingly regretful volunteer. My appetite... 
by External Article | May 11, 2020 | Care Work Library, Housing, Long Term Caregiving |
Between 2002 and 2013, the number of Canadian seniors living with dementia increased by 83 percent, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. In 2016, the Alzheimer Society of Canada estimated that more than half a million Canadians were living with... 
by External Article | Feb 11, 2020 | Art, Care Work Library |
While making Breathers, a series of photographs of looming Pacific Northwest trees as metaphors for this fading, I was inspired to look at how other photographers approach the disease. The following artists use photography to understand, process, and cope with their... 
by External Article | Oct 29, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent |
I’m looking after my 90-year old mum who has some dementia. My problem is her nasty attitude. I’m single and have to work full-time, but I visit mum twice a week and call her a couple of times nearly every day. I try taking her out to new places and for dinner, but... 
by Guest Author | Oct 1, 2019 | Poetry |
Some deaths Are like the slamming of a door. Sudden. Complete. You are either On one side of the door, Or the other, With no contact between. But dementia isn’t like that. It is simultaneously more gentle, And more cruel. Not one, complete, total, goodbye. Instead... 
by External Article | Jun 14, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finding Meaning |
Years ago I was dealing with ongoing anxiety issues when a friend told me, “Just go to your happy place.” I wanted to respond, “Just go to hell.” Then she wanted to remind me of all the blessings in my life. She was trying to help, but the message I received... 
by External Article | May 30, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Caring for a Parent |
I touch my father’s shoulder to let him know we’re here, but – for the first time – he doesn’t recognize me. My daughter Charlotte notices and hides a quiet weep. I start to worry. Dad’s memory has deteriorated even in the last month. I wonder whether I should have... 
by External Article | Apr 23, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Neighbor |
I live in a large co-op apartment building in Manhattan. Our staff is lovely and caring. A staff member told me that a resident is getting very forgetful and that she likes to spend her time in the lobby. I asked if she had family and was told she had only one brother... 
by External Article | Apr 1, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Grandparent, Millennial Generation |
After watching the way my mom’s family had treated her [after she came out], my own coming out was difficult, even though I knew I’d have her by my side through it all. Not only was I worried that I would be treated the same way she had, but I also worried that they... 
by Guest Author | Feb 5, 2019 | 24/7 Caregiving, Art, Caring for a Parent, Finding Meaning, Generation X, Poetry |
Ken jr wanted to share this video of him and his dad with our community: I was a full time caregiver of his for 5 yrs until he was recently admitted into the Veterans Residence center. As he slowly loses his Dad to dementia, Ken jr raps about some of his personal... 
by External Article | Jan 23, 2019 | Care Work Library, Planning |
A person who has dementia can draft a will, if certain criteria are met and if they are deemed to have legal capacity or understand the importance and meaning of what is being signed. But, it is important to remember that standards for capacity vary from state to... 
by External Article | Oct 8, 2018 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Grandparent, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Relative, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Housing, Long Distance Caregiving, Long Term Caregiving |
When do we owe people the full truth about their lives? What happens when people cannot understand the truth or cannot accept the truth, so insisting on it only causes them repeated pain? The streetscape at the Lantern, the home at Chagrin Valley, is particularly... 
by Kaiser Health News | Sep 28, 2018 | Baby Boom Generation, Caring for a Client, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Silent generation |
With a bullet in her gut, her voice choked with pain, Dee Hill pleaded with the 911 dispatcher for help. “My husband accidentally shot me,” Hill, 75, of The Dalles, Ore., groaned on the May 16, 2015, call. “In the stomach, and he can’t talk, please …” Less than four... 
by Larry Meigs | Aug 19, 2018 | Nutrition and Healthy Eating |
What role does the Mediterranean diet play in dementia care? If you’re a family caregiver, you may be asking this question after seeing recent news stories about this diet and its link to cognitive decline. But family caregivers aren’t the only ones asking about the... 
by External Article | May 25, 2018 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Grief, Long Term Caregiving, Working Family Caregivers |
I grieved for my dad’s shrinking skill set. He hardly seemed to notice. Even as the disease took hold, my father, always someone who had systems in place, tried to outsmart it. About a year post-diagnosis, I found an enormous stack of notecards listing names of people... 
by Guest Author | Apr 19, 2018 | Caregiving 101 |
Denial: In the beginning, you start to notice things being a little off. This is a difficult stage because only someone close to the individual will pick on these oddities. Sometimes, this goes on for quite some time before someone other than you can start to... 
by Guest Author | Apr 9, 2018 | Caregiving 101 |
Although Black Americans are about twice as likely to develop late-onset Alzheimer’s disease as White Americans, they’re also less likely to be diagnosed with it. A variety of factors play a role in this disturbing trend, including stress and racial inequities. Here... 
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