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Full list of archived posts (most recent articles are at the top):
- like one flew over the cuckoo’s nest
- drugged & drooling
- 20 actions to foster and maintain dignity in dementia care homes
- 20 dementia “what ifs?”
- 10 great reasons to ask 20 questions and how to create them
- 7 ways to transform dementia care grief and suffering into joy and healing
- care partner humour: milkin’ it!
- eternal anguish
- need more sleep? here’s a care partner tip that might help…
- 20 questions to ask when someone living with dementia “resists” or “refuses” care
- surprising teepa care partner tip for when people keep repeating same old stories
- care partner struggles alone without support of loved one’s adult children
- 30 reasons people living with dementia might decline to eat
- dementia care partner mom investigated for having daughter help with care
- 10 practical actions that foster real person- and relationship-centered care
- a story about being with the people you love, whatever the state of their brains
- i tell my mom’s story to help improve dementia care worldwide
- 1 easy way you can help change the face of dementia care worldwide
- 7 kinds of therapy i don’t want when i’m living with alzheimer disease
- 7 things you can do now to prepare for being a dementia care partner one day
- exploring asperger syndrome
- 7 ways to bring joy to your dying mom at christmas
- people living with dementia prove the medical model wrong
- puppies & people living with dementia: it’s not rocket science (p.s.: forget the pillows — leave them with the real thing!)
- bj and her mom gloria look for blessings
- a real-life example of what great dementia care is: loving, engaging, respectful, meaningful and joyful for everyone involved
- a daughter’s rendering and remembering
- 7 powerful thoughts on the resilience brilliance of elders and people living with dementia
- 10 reasons people living with dementia get up in the night, and what often happens when they do
- 500+ reasons we need to do something about widespread neglect and abuse in long-term care in canada (and around the world)
- teepa snow shows how to help someone living with dementia to put on a jacket or sweater without resistance
- shift the culture, stop the bullies
- big pharma, big money, big crime
- it’s as frustrating for care workers as it is for family members
- are we way off target?
- what do you do to calm your loved one with alzheimer’s disease or other type of dementia?
- how difficult is it to support someone with alzheimer’s or another form of dementia who cannot recognize or remember you?
- PR: should alzheimer’s advocates be doing it for #BIGpharma?
- how many are haunted?
- imagine how much suffering could be spared!
- 3 excerpts from the best article on dementia i have ever read (and a link to the full meal deal)
- bullied and banned: rachel’s story
- nobody seems to care
- ascendants: awakening to where and whom we came from
- somebody stole my mom
- being heard will make you think differently
- 7 words not to use in alzheimer news
- 20 compelling reasons to rethink the way we label and medicalise the behaviour of people who live with dementia #BanBPSD
- 15 examples of neglect & abuse that would have been captured on cctv in winifred’s care homes
- nurse, can you ‘elp me?
- music from a tapestry of shared moments in long-term care
- dementia rights advocate spells out human rights in open letter to comedian tim conway’s family
- 10 seldom-mentioned “side effects” of using antipsychotics in long-term dementia care, which are also 10 more good reasons we should #BanBPSD
- the #CMAHealthSummit jam band featuring @Cmdr_Hadfield on guitar & vocals
- the truth behind my mother’s death: august 16, 2016
- the dystonia did us in: august 15, 2016
- one last sing-along: august 13, 2016
- like puppets on a string: august 12, 2016
- it wasn’t what she said, it was how she said it: august 10 & 11, 2016
- my mom is a question mark: august 9, 2016
- my oh my what a wonderful day: august 8, 2016
- 7 reasons i post “ugly” pictures of my amazing mom on social media
- in the arms of the angels: august 7, 2016
- dead to the world: august 5 & 6, 2016
- sometimes nothing works: august 4, 2016
- ow ow ow & mom’s dying of thirst: august 3, 2016
- can you eat a cookie with your left hand? august 1, 2016
- detective work: july 30, 2016
- no news is good news: july 29, 2016
- a turn for the worse: july 28, 2016
- singer songwriter jay allen holds on to his mom
- jillian jiggs and a mind of her own: july 27, 2016
- the beginning of the end: july 26, 2016
- what do you say to people living with dementia when someone they love dies, or when they ask about someone who is dead?
- “good pleasure” #lastmonthwithmymom 16/07/16
- the current system is disgraceful
- i still smell the stench
- heard about the latest cure for alzheimer disease? watch this!
- 19 ltc human rights abuses i hope quebec will have to pay for
- alex george fiddles “good-to-go” message from mom & universe
- what if everything we’ve been taught about dementia care is a lie?
- safety pins & call bells
- hot pink duct tape solves alzheimer seating issue
- one more care worker could make a world of difference
- this is what tragic brilliance looks like
- take off the blindfolds and #BanBPSD: an open letter to the worldwide dementia community
- 7 problems with BPSD
- 7 strategies to create harmony in dementialand
- 7 ways to improve dementia care in less than three minutes
- let them have their dementia
- sometimes they just don’t get it in australia either
- 7-part palliative care plan works (for people AND cats)
- 5 ways to make toast in long-term dementia care
- hundreds of studies make me mad as hell
- we need a paradigm shift
- when people castigate, educate!
- no more business as usual
- how would we behave if we were locked in? research shows 96% of us would respond the same way many people with dementia do
- two quick dementia care conversation tips from dr. al power
- harry and the daughter who never visited
- understanding the suffering associated with dying
- who’s in charge, where are they and do they care?
- how often do we fail to recognize them?
- how would “normal” people feel if we did to them what we do to people who live with dementia?
- feed them ffs!
- courageous vangaros united by love in life and death
- is it “normal” or not? a quick survey on behaviour
- Teepa Snow demos 10 first steps to calm & comfort a distressed person living with dementia
- son thanks pops’ caregiver bird at alzheimer’s end
- 20 questions to ask yourself about dementia-related incontinence
- how old is old?
- nurse says her 95-year-old mother’s facial injuries were worst she’s ever seen
- i wish you could see her
- it’s time to humanize dementia care
- hail mary i need to pee
- alzheimer disease didn’t do this. drugs and dementia jail did
- get silly billy!
- turn potential dementia disasters into fun and laughter
- mom’s 2012 irish medley
- olivia singing to her great grandmother creates a beautiful moment of love and connection
- alzheimer society nails language guidelines
- grandpa drake the dragon teaches kids about dementia
- videos don’t lie about abuse, but people do
- 7 snippets from a story about unborn baby bunnies that is scarily similar to the myth of bpsd
- it’s sad
- 3 wise thoughts on being with someone you love as they die, which also apply to being with someone with dementia as they live
- why i couldn’t get my mom off drugs
- against my wishes and against her will
- nurse émilie ricard gives health minister the finger with thumbs up
- 15-minute care makeover with claire sweeney
- don’t hide behind safety
- 20 questions to ask when a person living with dementia declines to take her or his medication
- greg steven elofson says: perspective is important
- the shocking truth behind this tragic video
- an open letter to cbc marketplace regarding “crying out for care”
- kate swaffer says: use a human-rights-based approach
- what’s wrong with this picture?
- i know where to find her
- stephanie frederick says: learn a different language
- human rights watch nails crux of antipsychotic problem in nursing homes
- 15 experts tell the truth about antipsychotic use in nursing homes
- dead to the world: what being sedated with seroquel did to my mom
- 5 thought-provoking quotes on memories in dementialand
- 20 questions to ask when a care partner or resident walks around at night
- coy gupta says: what goes around comes around
- sue clarke says: they locked up my mom
- the lies added insult to injury
- how teresa and her staff helped 90-year-old audrey walk again
- born again, just for fun
- the beautiful tennessee waltz
- hidden restraints: hidden abuse
- what happened to my mom?
- the reason jolie’s dad was having a bad day
- 15 helpful hints to prevent agitation in people living with alzheimer disease and related dementias
- baby buddy: you get peed on, you get puked on, who wouldn’t want to do it?
- 20 opportunities being an alzheimer’s or related dementia care partner might offer you
- elderly man with dementia dies in quebec ltcf from inappropriately prescribed antipsychotic drugs
- 10 ways to reframe “refused medication”
- meggen’s bad day ends with a light-bulb moment
- francis grey says: provide genuine leadership
- 77-year-old ballet teacher still on her toes
- how not to kill dementia dancers
- i’ll be glad when christmas is over
- don’t fence me in: a true story about the impact of physical restraints on my mom who lived with alzheimer disease
- how much is lost in translation?
- after i put them in prison, mom’s bff became mine
- 4 “easy” steps to embracing empathy
- tardive what? 7 things dementia care partners, care staff and medical professionals should know about this kind of dyskinesia
- 10 things that seemed like good ideas at the time
- how being sorry and stupid turned mad into glad
- 30 haloperidol / haldol side effects
- what if santa claus were diagnosed with dementia?
- four years later is too late for my mom. but it’s not for others.
- understaffed nursing homes force residents into incontinence
- teepa talks antipsychotics: 6 quotable quotes
- if only they had listened to ciaran
- 101 potential causes of behaviour by people living with dementia that institutional care staff may find challenging
- dementia caregivers: a poem
- 20 things & beings i love & am grateful for today
- how many more steps could you take if you couldn’t take any more?
- when you’re put behind bars
- the broken lens of BPSD: why we need to rethink the way we label the behaviour of people who live with alzheimer’s disease
- all fixed up: a lighthearted ode to our broken bits
- 30 tips to help reduce anxiety in dementia care
- when i get muddled, i sure wish she were here
- will fear of alzheimer’s drive us to drugs for life?
- 7 reasons behind institutional care fails
- it’s true what they say about rainbows
- one little kitty’s top dementia care tip
- “rabid-dog” granddaughter takes on “combative” physician
- stand up for better care
- 20 caregivers answer the antipsychotic question
- for the want of a key: #alz LOL
- thank your lucky dementia stars
- everyone i know and love is “doomed,” including me
- 15 qualities dementia care partners need to survive
- how my mom’s affection got mislabelled “aggression”
- the day i gave away mom’s clothes
- 7 simple dementia care partner needs
- loud sounds and dementia mostly don’t mix
- happy last birthday dear mummy
- the story of the cracked pot and the flowers she grew
- 7 ways people living with dementia and their care partners can lessen worldwide dementia impact
- pinkie pattie, pinkie punkie & pinkie pia’s peace day poem
- do you know the alzheimer’s alphabet?
- no, it’s not a trick question, and the proof is in the video
- 20 questions to ask yourself if you’re wondering whether or not you should visit someone who lives with dementia
- run for your life!
- flute flies & love taps
- 8 principles of high-quality care and support that people who live with dementia and people who don’t live with dementia all deserve
- out of the mouths of babes come dementia truths
- 7 teepa tips to help people with dementia do what they can to care
- the shame belongs to someone else
- when love is a stranger
- everyone should be helped to let the sun shine in
- forever is not long enough
- president of PSW association says she has seen “tonnes of abuse”
- 90-year-old grandmother’s hospital rape goes viral
- tears to my eyes
- how mickey mouse keeps viv & gregg’s love alive
- still flying those night flights
- alzheimer’s speaks’ lori la bey and i agree on the beauty of dementia
- this is for jane, and maybe for you too
- beauty, magic, grief and reflections on regret
- Est-ce vraiment la vérité sur la démence, les médicaments et le comportement?
- is what they say about dementia, drugs & behaviour true?
- what a difference an E makes by c. stuart-cole
- using ‘no trespassing’ orders against family members is a travesty
- 16th alzheimer shower-time tip applies to everything
- a year ago yesterday
- 30 powerful things you could say to reduce anxiety and anger, and connect with people who live with alzheimer disease
- ‘how you are to me’ touches, teaches & stands out from the crowd
- 100% joyful grandma = 17.5 million glorious yt views
- 10 thought-provoking links on dementia “wandering”
- confused, not clueless
- 5 ways to help people who live with alzheimer not ‘fade away’
- beauty & the bbq on the back deck
- 7 ways to preserve dignity
- misprescribing antipsychotic drugs to elderly dementia patients is an outrage. it’s also elder abuse.
- mom and her bff gaby sing happy birthday o canada
- the old man and the little boy
- 10 more poems i didn’t want to write
- the demented system
- dementia not the cause in majority of harmful resident-on-resident interactions
- 10 practical ways care partners can help preserve the dignity of people who live with dementia
- drugs, not dementia, robbed me of my mom and her of her mind
- battle worn before lunch in june
- 4-minute survey results debunk decades-long notion that BPSDs are symptoms of dementia
- is it alzheimer? dementia? neither? or both? a 2-minute animated video short course
- 10 pieces of wisdom from dr. allen power & dementia beyond disease
- 12 UTI symptoms experienced by the elderly and what they’re like in real life
- 10-day-old wyatt meets his great-grandma for the first time
- going out dancing
- let me weep
- 35 things that may cause people with dementia (and you) to become uncooperative, upset, angry, anxious or “aggressive”
- 20 behavioural expressions for which antipsychotic medications are unwarranted and ineffective in people who live with dementia
- always mother and child
- the telling of pookie: a story of love, magic and possibility
- Teepa Snow is on the go!
- down in the valley: one of our gazillion favourites
- the two biggest challenges to creating positive change in dementia care
- “wandering” is not a symptom of dementia
- an alzheimer parent’s poem
- daughters, dementia and drugs: finding good on the road to forgiveness
- 15 tips to make alzheimer dementia shower time successful not stressful
- i think mom may be dying
- i want to live
- what we see will be undone
- 40 risperdal side effects
- Thanks for taking my survey!
- Imaginez que l’on traite nos bébés ainsi
- Thanks for taking my survey!
- an alzheimer easter egg hunt
- look who’s talking now
- don’t mourn me long
- the little things are actually everything
- crazy daughter weighs mom’s wet “nappy” and writes open letter to minister of health about it
- Elle pèse la « couche » de sa mère et décide d’écrire au Ministre de la Santé
- my answer to a grandson’s quora question
- families turned fighters take on ltc goliath revera for elder abuse
- the forgetful still want to be valued
- team of four elder swimmers with an average age of 90 breaks world record
- my wild irish rose
- juiced and joyful over jamda
- i am still a person by judy lauer
- 10 ways to get to the bottom of behaviour and problematic situations in dementia care at home and in LTCFs
- 10 nursing humour memes that are tragically unfunny
- open windows by rozanne baker
- drugging the elderly: how much is too much?
- Médicamenter nos personnes âgées : jusqu’où cela peut-il aller ?
- what it looks like when an angel loves you
- how to rock the boat and not end up shipwrecked: the school for change agents
- in the dead of the night
- 47 things family dementia care partners say they’ve learned
- alzheimer disease helped my mom play the piano
- what i said to the senators
- seeing the potential when someone tears a sink off the wall
- a dementia care message for the canadian senate
- mrs brown and my mom had lovely daughters
- truth or dare
- the looney tunes trio (unplugged): a late-stage alzheimer music session during which we rock
- you’re invited to a free, life-saving dementia care webinar
- she knew she would be an angel soon
- doing the right thing when everything seems wrong
- happy big bird day!
- List of 15,645 US nursing homes showing percentage of residents on antipsychotics
- painted angels and amazing grace
- alzheimer annie invites you in
- alzheimer hero breaks free in this gone-viral fantasy video ad
- the stuff wilbur left out the first time around
- painful care partner choices: love or loss (or sometimes both)?
- Philippe Voyer explique les causes des SPCDs
- it’s not a cornflake
- Top 10 MAS posts to date (plus bonus links)
- zlateh the goat and the “maaaaaaaaaaa” that means many things
- blessings and curses
- the paws that refreshes
- chocolate truffles and jingle bells: Christmas 2015
- going skreely christmas outtakes 2014
- can you spell christmas?
- strange and special christmas gifts: 2013
- the perils of care: christmas 2012
- a play on words: christmas 2011
- home is where the heart/h is 2010
- salmon and snowshoes 2009
- walking in the winter snow
- comments: a short survey on behaviour
- Teepa’s top 10 ten holiday tips plus 10 more from me (and three PDFs!)
- missing you
- what would YOU do? a short survey on behaviour
- Glo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ria!!!!
- BANGS: 5 surefire ways to stop anger and aggression in people who live with alzheimer’s disease in the early, mid, and later stages
- make it up as you go along
- 25 dementia communication quick tips in 4 minutes!
- will the real me please stand up?
- do you see what i see?
- 3 more reasons family and friends of people who live with dementia in long-term care facilities don’t report abuse and neglect
- 3 reasons family and friends of people who live with dementia in long-term care facilities don’t report abuse and neglect
- ma cousine, ma maman et moi
- the day our best wasn’t good enough
- remembering a bird in the hand
- yesterday if not sooner would have been better
- brutal short fragile storm perpetuates dementia care stigma and myths
- my kissin cousin and mom and thanks for your support
- 20 ways touch benefits people who live with dementia
- you raise me up to more than i can be
- la cerise sur le sundae des meilleurs soins d’hygiène d’alzheimer
- yes mom, yes mom, three bags full
- 6 reasons why staff in long-term care facilities don’t report incidents of elder abuse and neglect
- what it means to be or not to be
- 10 reasons why neglect and abuse of elders with dementia may be the norm rather than the exception in long-term care facilities
- a break in the alzheimer’s clouds
- death by recliner
- 20 questions to change the direction of dementia anxiety and aggression
- 12 reasons elders are “abandoned” in long-term care
- 25 practices long-term care workers know are elder neglect and abuse; it’s time to put a stop to it
- it ain’t no bowl of cherries; but it could be a basket of pompoms
- happy birthday mom, i hope you’re living it up
- example of how arguing escalates conflict with people who live with dementia and how to fix it
- don’t rest in peace or sleep deceased
- 10 lessons from pinkie patti and the dancing bear
- gradually back to the future
- a day in the life of wilbur and deb
- pia, punkie and patti’s peace day poem from the past
- flying to the moon is relatively safe
- TED aphasia video great for dementia care partners
- don’t waste your time hating alzheimer’s disease
- leslie jones 5 top care lessons & 5 more of my own
- i didn’t know how soon you’d go
- Kate Swaffer’s 8 wishes for dementia
- 20 shocking facts about the abuse of elders with dementia
- 5 good things alzheimer’s brought me more of
- homeward bound: poetic grief and hopeful song
- then and now, sacred cows
- fear and ignorance create resistance
- Mary Patricia (Patty) Macaulay: Obituary
- dying with my mom
- now you see me, now you don’t
- 5 psyche-saving tips for dementia care partners
- the turnstile
- a field of poppies for heidi’s mom
- 7 ways to honour living and dying with dementia
- what happens when care homes stop giving antipsychotics to elderly people with dementia?
- rethinking the pathological myth of normal
- get up, get up, get out of bed
- care is all about connection says still alice author
- 40+ seroquel side effects
- let me shine: a dementia rhyme to open minds
- choosing love and finding joy
- 6 reasons care partners fight with their loved ones
- 7 paths to better dementia care
- 37 alternatives to the dementia wanderer
- 6 scary facts you should know about dementia care
- being elderly and living with dementia is not a crime
- 17 links to the “other side” of dementia
- what 18-year-old alice wants you to know about being a dementia care partner
- 10+ smart dance tips for dementia care partners
- 7 forms of elder abuse and how to spot the signs to stop it
- when mom still remembered
- 10 quick tips to help you tango not tangle
- 20 questions to ask yourself when you blow up
- how things get unbearably crazy
- an open letter to those who think they know better
- #1 reason people with dementia try to escape
- 20 questions to ask yourself about “wandering”
- stop! in the name of love
- mama don’t forget i love you
- vindicated and validated
- dead mom talking full of grief, wisdom and tenderness
- top 15 things dementia care partners say they’ve learned
- walk a mile in my alzheimer’s shoes
- 6 ways to create better dementia care relationships
- president obama would probably be sedated
- what if life were a ball of yarn?
- we too are one
- waging war at alzheimer’s bath time
- save our souls and help us please
- 5 ways we rob people with dementia of their dignity
- which way to the bathroom?
- dachshund demos 7 person-centered care tips
- please remain seated for the rest of your life
- dancing girls bring joy to world
- 10 ways to use improv to improve life with alzheimer’s
- 29 normal behaviours you could be sedated for
- 10 tips to make the most of music in dementia care
- a daughter’s prayer to god
- not just a piece of the furniture
- 10 things not to say to grieving Mary Missy Taylor
- 20 paths to dementia care homes away from home
- are you for person-centered dementia care?
- the black dots
- i see you, i love you, i miss you
- don’t make things more difficult than they are
- Teepa Snow shares 10 tips to deal with hallucinations
- tiny bubbles and Wendy’s mom
- 10 barriers to reducing antipsychotics for dementia
- once a dancer
- more in touch with love than ever
- 7 dementia care basics from Teepa Snow
- the loss is in us
- 10 normal ways care partners express grief
- don’t give advice to people who are drowning
- 5 raw emotions alzheimers dementia caregivers feel
- one of the most beautiful love stories ever
- stop and think before you go squirrely
- i know what they liked to eat
- the road to release: a poem
- our hearts and voices will be free
- what if we treated babies like this?
- ghost people
- 50 names not to call alzheimer’s me
- 7 poems to share because they’re there
- they may forget, and we should reach out
- 20 expert tips for the driving dilemma conversation
- 10 things to remember when you interact with people who forget
- some gods write plans
- better late than never
- shhhhhhhh: mum’s the word
- 13 expert tips to help with “I want to go home.”
- it’s just not cricket
- jingle bells and chocolate truffles
- an alzheimer’s christmas story
- one caregiver’s offer to hold all others’ hands
- 7 years of horror created a dementia care hero
- albina takes internet by storm with joy
- the heart remembers. always.
- what to say to family members who ‘can’t bear to see mom or dad this way’
- Two Mothers Remembered by Joann Snow Duncanson
- when mind and body fail, look for the dancer inside
- laughing babies better than any pill ever invented, cure for virtually everything
- this unwilling care partner would do it all over again despite the challenges and obstacles
- joys and tears throughout the years
- 5 inspiring, loving and hopeful alzheimer’s memoirs
- combining eldercare and childcare under the same roof creates joy and magic in the moment
- actions speak louder than words x 10 with dementia care #Alzheimers #compassion #care #truth
- all souls and the grandfather i never knew
- Quebec’s eldercare drug culture: a provincial picture paints 1,314 shocking prescriptions
- my mom loved her mom
- the kind of daughter i am is the kind i will never regret being
- let’s get dead right about dementia and dangerous drugs
- the worldwide case against giving antipsychotics to elderly people living with dementia
- still getting on with it
- it’s no joke: seroquel and risperdal illegally marketed to treat elderly people with dementia
- tragically wrong and hilariously funny: john oliver tells the truth about drugs, docs and big bucks
- find the pearls within
- i’m sorry is hard, but it may also be the most powerful part of BANGS
- broken doors and a gun to my head
- keeping your cool in the face of complete and utter insanity is easier than you think
- is your dementia glass half empty or half full?
- it’s working! and yes, we can change the world one mind at a time…
- love comes in all shapes, sizes and colours including small, furry, and black and white
- put a candle on a cupcake and see if you feel as lucky as my mom
- some things and some people cannot be denied even when they’re dead
- it’s better to be queer on your deer than funny on your bunny on your birthday
- another bloody birthday
- 7 things you should know about how and why antipsychotics are inappropriately prescribed to people living with dementia in care facilities
- find the lady in the lies: a shell game of side effects and suffering for the sake of antipsychotic sales
- 10 things Johnson & Johnson probably wishes the world didn’t now know about the way it marketed risperdal
- the truth and lies about antipsychotics and greed: it’s not a pretty picture
- mom and i love dancing. always have. always will.
- the amazing gift of alzheimers / dementia: love and compassion in action
- night flights to london
- we all go through rough patches. here’s one thing that can help us get to the other side.
- Teepa Snow demos 10 ways to calm a crisis with a person living with Alzheimer’s / dementia
- the “G” in BANGS: 5 great ways to stop dementia anger, aggression and anxiety in their tracks
- our angel gaby is raising cain
- some promises, like some rules, are meant to be broken.
- Teepa Snow demos Hand Under Hand™ dementia care to connect, comfort and “control”
- behind the lines of nursery rhymes
- my mom still counts and she deserves better
- we hoped for a better end
- torn corners & confetti (the octet)
- come to mummy anyway
- never never argue is the “N” in BANGS
- hopscotch & double dutch
- the triple “A” in BANGS
- torn corners & confetti (viii)
- torn corners & confetti (vii)
- torn corners & confetti (vi)
- torn corners & confetti (v)
- torn corners & confetti (iv)
- torn corners & confetti (iii)
- torn corners & confetti (ii)
- torn corners & confetti (i)
- love liberates me and you and Maya Angelou
- she hasn’t changed a bit
- B is for breathe in BANGS
- a visit with the book of revelation
- 6 short and inspirational alzheimer dementia love stories that will warm your heart
- 10+ Teepa Snow videos on dementia basics
- 7 reasons i visit my mom every day
- 101 activities you can enjoy with a person living with alzheimers dementia
- you took me by the hand
- Teepa Snow’s 7 powerful things a care partner can say to stop anger and aggression in a person with dementia
- 6 GEMS(TM) from Teepa Snow outshine every stage from the inside out
- 5 ways to honour a mother every day
- mcnamara’s band and mwaaaaah mwaaaaah
- some things never change and others do a lot
- one step, two step on the way to tea
- Kate Swaffer and the Q-TIP
- 7 elements of a proper dementia diagnosis (with Teepa Snow)
- when mind and body fail, look for the dancer inside
- 20 questions that help explain why people with dementia get agitated and physically aggressive
- 10 poems i didn’t want to write
- 21 items on our dementia “no longer” lists
- jolly good fellows
- 20 great questions to ask when a loved one with dementia doesn’t recognize you anymore
- hickory dickory mockery
- 5 top dementia care tips from Teepa Snow
- happy easter memories
- give me jesus on the line
- 13+ needs we share with people who live with dementia
- nobody knew they were there
- against all odds, despite everything
- the sun, the moon and the star
- heaven can count
- life is a death sentence
- yes, we are not invisible
- on and on the where-are-we?-go-round
- the road to release: a poem
- when lies are told the truth unfolds
- what matters most
- i may have alzheimer’s disease
- imagine aging differently
- it doesn’t matter if they know you or not
- our plastic brains
- the days my daddy died
- some things are meant to be
- tiptoe through the tulips with tiny tim and mom
- the answer is blowing in the wind
- amazing amazing grace with guitar
- share a prayer for someone who cares
- i will always love you
- we ain’t misbehavin’, we’re savin’ all our love for…
- shower time revisited (part 3 of 3)
- breakfast for two at the alzheimer cafe (part 2 of 3)
- our lives have been turned upside down (1 of 3)
- 50 ways to love your mother
- 3 books and 1 loving video that will change the way you see Alzheimers
- i fall to pieces
- The 12 tenets of the Dementia Bill of Rights
- what confusion felt like to my mom in the later stage alzheimer
- maybe they want to see something beautiful
- goodbye Dubai is as good a place to start as any
- autumn memories on mom’s clothesline
- do you see the young woman who once was me?
- cracking wide open on the radio
- others aren’t as lucky as we are
- 92-year-old Dorothy flies over the rainbow
- life is a chorus line if you believe you can can
- can you hear the loons calling?
- fierce independence meets youthful arrogance on the way to the sing along
- 5 years ago there was war and peace
- a poetic invitation to “rewriting alzheimer” at walk with me 2018
- the effect of physical restraints on mom
- the main thing is to keep going
- another day at the alzheimer cafe
- 5 rewards I get for taking care of a loved one with dementia
- it may LOOK cute and caring, but really it’s not
- not a willy or a sam but amazing grace
- if you think they don’t know think again
- this is what love sounds like
- the heartbreaking reality of caring for someone with alzheimer
- my alzheimer’s mom counts
- birds of a feather
- an open letter to people who think they know better
- 6 more Alzheimers memoirs worth reading
- the cosmos and coming full circle
- 5 things I never knew until I sang with my alzheimer mom
- a magical musical alzheimer gift
- two hearts, three tunes, some tears and a half-moon table
- pinkie patti will get a kick out of this
- on mothers, daughters and bad hair days
- dancing with alzheimer and my mom
- a miracle behind the mask
- for kay: they know & appreciate
- never enough time
- an endless alzheimers prayer
- Oh Mom! (A mother/daughter moment remembered)
- we saw love. what do you see?
- 7 Alzheimers Dementia Memoirs Worth Reading
- Alzheimers Dementia Infographic Paints Picture of Global Challenge
- Alzheimers Caregiver Q & A with CBC Radio Quebec AM
- Inside Dementia’s Martha Stettinius Writes for Alzheimers Caregivers
- pinkie patti covered the beatles as only she could
- Diane Elinor Hoover’s Top 10 Words for Alzheimers Caregivers
- ain’t she sweet on alzheimer’s healing piano?
- alzheimer’s alphabet soup is a sentence
- The Latino Perspective on Alzheimers Dementia Caregiving? An Honour NOT a Burden
- #1 Thing Alzheimers Dementia Caregivers Know
- 5 Uplifting Emotions Felt by Alzheimers Dementia Care Partners
- 5 Raw Emotions Alzheimers Dementia Caregivers Feel Every Day
- I Remember Today. Will Alzheimers Stop Me Remembering Tomorrow?
- can you play an alzheimers doe, dear?
- pinkie patti plays alzheimer’s piano
- she’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes
- 140117 Sandy does Mom’s hair
- loving words at sunset
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- 130119 what happened to my mom?
- 121201 singing christmas carols
- moving day
- 120808 listen to all the things I said wrong 🙁
- is it a boy turtle or a girl turtle?