she couldn’t sing because she was sedated
My mother, who lived with dementia, was chemically and physically restrained every day for the…
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50 more pics that prove my mom was neglected and abused in long-term care
If you don’t have proof, you won’t be believed. Sometimes, even if you DO have…
who is responsible when people living with dementia are robbed of their dignity in long-term care?
Of the roughly seven hundred entries on seventy-five pages of nurses notes I was sent…
hilda zlataroff should have died of old age
Family care partner Nicole Jaouich visited her 102-year-old mother Hilda Zlatoroff in a Quebec long-term…
5 powerful dementia care lessons i learned being my mom’s care partner
Being my mother’s primary care partner in various ways for ten years was one of…
eternal anguish
At some point in most dementia care partners’ experience they will find themselves on this…
a daughter’s rendering and remembering
November 16, 2018: I doubt I will ever get over the deep grief I feel each…
ascendants: awakening to where and whom we came from
Some days I miss my home and my mom more than others. I think about…
7-part palliative care plan works (for people AND cats)
About a month after Mom died in August 2016, her little kitty cat Pia Roma,…
20 questions to ask yourself about dementia-related incontinence
One of the first things we learn to do as toddlers is to eliminate our…