painful care partner choices: love or loss (or sometimes both)?
UK dementia care pioneer David Sheard talks about two stark choices that each of us who…
Browsing: Care Partnering
zlateh the goat and the “maaaaaaaaaaa” that means many things
Life speaks in many ways through countless channels. On the night I first heard this…
blessings and curses
My Alzheimer’s story if full of sorrow, joy, love, healing, despair, grief and more. Each…
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…
will the real me please stand up?
Flashback November 30, 2011: “You’re not my daughter Sue!” Mom is exasperated. “My daughter is…
the day our best wasn’t good enough
November 16, 2012: I took the photograph before nine; I know for sure because Caroline…
yesterday if not sooner would have been better
Flashback November 8, 2011: “I don’t really want to have all those bags in there,” Mom…
my kissin cousin and mom and thanks for your support
Five years ago today, on November 5, 2011, my cousin Liane (left) came to…
what it means to be or not to be
To be, or not to be, that is the question— Whether ’tis Nobler in the…
a break in the alzheimer’s clouds
On July 23, 2013, Mom told me in no uncertain terms that she wanted to stay: “I…