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Thought of the Week: Kindness Dissolves the Pain

March 25, 2024 No Comments

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We don't know how strong we are until being strong is the only choice we have. (Alzheimer's Awareness)

Thought of the Week: How Strong We Are

March 13, 2024 4 Comments

We don’t know how strong we are,
until being strong is the only choice we have.
(Alzheimer’s Awareness)

It's not that caregivers have so much time. It's that they have so much heart.

Thought of the Week: So Much Heart

March 3, 2024 1 Comment

It’s not that caregivers have so much time. It’s that they have so much heart.

You're only human. You don't have to have it together every minute of every day.

Thought of the Week: Together

February 25, 2024 No Comments

God didn't add another day in your life because you needed it, He added it because someone out there needs you.

Thought of the Week: Another Day

February 15, 2024 2 Comments

God didn’t add another day in your life because you needed it. He added it because someone out there needs you.

Take it slow. Ask Simple questions. Limit reality checks. Keep eye contact.

Thought of the Week:
4 ALZHEIMER’S CARE STEPS

February 7, 2024 2 Comments

Take it slow. Ask Simple questions. Limit reality checks. Keep eye contact.

Thought of the Week: Just Breathe

January 29, 2024 3 Comments

Just Breathe

Nobody has ever measured, Not even the Poets, How much a heart can hold. (Zella Fitzgerald)

Thought of the Week: How Much a Heart Can Hold

January 21, 2024 No Comments

Nobody has ever measured,
Not even the Poets,
How much a heart can hold. (Zelda Fitzgerald)

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day.

Thought of the Week: Something Good Every Day

January 5, 2024 2 Comments

Every day may not be good… But there’s something good in every day.

Thought of the Week: Light Gets In

December 26, 2023 2 Comments

We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in. Ernest Hemingway

Thoughtful Dementia Care – Understanding the Dementia Experience

July 8, 2025

BOOK OF THE WEEK: Thoughtful Dementia Care is today’s best book on understanding the dementia experience. An easy-to-read, sensitive portrayal of managing the world of dementia.

Fooling the Doctor: Cognitive-Reserve Hides Alzheimer’s

July 7, 2025

Don Hayen is a retired doctor, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at 71. But that diagnosis took way too long. Find out how his “cognitive reserve” fooled his doctors. See why he sure wished it hadn’t.

Understanding, Accepting and Appreciating Dementia Sufferers

July 6, 2025

There is more to us than our brains and our bodies, says dementia expert Teepa Snow. “There’s more to us than that … When we’re together, we become more.” Watch now.

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Big Cup, Little Man: Picking Up the Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

SHORT-TERM MEMORY lapses are obvious signs of Alzheimer’s, but other tell-tale signals begin to show much earlier. Learn how to look for semantic impairments, such as simple questions about size.

85 with Dementia? Good Chance It’s HS-AGING, Not Alzheimer’s

Three important dementia studies focus on HS-AGING, a type of dementia almost as common as Alzheimer’s in the 85+ group. Yet few people have heard of it. Why? What makes it different?

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A Grandchild for One Day Keeps Dementia Away

An intriguing study of 120 grandmothers might surprise you. Doctors know socially engaged people have better cognition and less dementia. But can a person get too much of a good thing? What’s the right balance?