‘how you are to me’ touches, teaches & stands out from the crowd
It’s hard to imagine how buckets of love, tenderness, teaching, magic and messages about some…
Browsing: Challenges & Solutions
dementia not the cause in majority of harmful resident-on-resident interactions
“Senior with dementia guilty in death of nursing home resident,” the headline reads. The incidence…
35 things that may cause people with dementia (and you) to become uncooperative, upset, angry, anxious or “aggressive”
Are people who live with dementia sometimes uncooperative, upset, angry or even “aggressive?” Yes. But…
the two biggest challenges to creating positive change in dementia care
Do care workers set out to neglect and abuse elderly people who live with dementia?…
10 ways to get to the bottom of behaviour and problematic situations in dementia care at home and in LTCFs
In spring 2016 I gave a webinar entitled “How to become a better dementia care…
doing the right thing when everything seems wrong
“I’m going to stay here and care for her for a year because I know…
a play on words: christmas 2011
Mom and I had words on Christmas morning 2011, from about 03:30 a.m. to 05:30…
BANGS: 5 surefire ways to stop anger and aggression in people who live with alzheimer’s disease in the early, mid, and later stages
I knew less than zero about dementia care when I returned to Canada from Dubai…
3 more reasons family and friends of people who live with dementia in long-term care facilities don’t report abuse and neglect
“…too many people are frightened to raise concerns because they think [their visits will be restricted…
3 reasons family and friends of people who live with dementia in long-term care facilities don’t report abuse and neglect
“One in three adults who are in residential care or receiving help at home (in…