And now … a sneak PREVIEW of The Caregiver’s Voice newly redesigned website. After setting a goal to redesign and update The Caregiver’s Voice website then dropping hints and announcing our upgrade plans in the Newsletter, we are close to launching The Caregiver’s Voice new w[...]
Guest post by Dr. Mark Rubinstein At times, we all take the people we love for granted. At least, I did … until the gift. The old expression “you don’t know what you have until you lose it” really hit home for me last year, when my wife of nearly thirty years, was diagnosed with a [...]
Family caregiver asks how to handle it when her mother challenges her answers and doesn’t trust that she has her best interests. Caregiver Question My mom lives with us and has the beginning stages of Dementia. She challenges just about everything I say. She will ask me something and when I an[...]
Linda E. Austin’s’ Poems that come to Mind is a little treasure of short poems “for those who love someone with dementia” (subtitle). Daughter Austin writes these short yet targeted poems about how she feels and about the different experiences she has with her mother, Yaeko S[...]
It’s HEEERE–The Caregiver’s Voice new logo! Jessie Phillips incorporated your reasons and votes in her redesigns and we’re happy to share with you The Caregiver’s Voice logo-in-progress. Although, the clickable logo to the left is one of four-color variations created by[...]
Family caregiver asks about memory care for Mom: I have been a caregiver for my mom for 5 years. I have health issues which concern me. My husband and I are looking for Memory Care soon because I can no longer care for her due to that I need to take care of myself. Is there anything we need to watc[...]
Essential Alzheimer’s Education Guest post by Diane Walker, RN, MS Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease characterized by dementia, including changes in memory, thinking, and behavior. An estimated 5.4 million Americans suffer from it, and though treatments are available there is currently no known c[...]
Join the Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) for a webinar on “Exercise and Dementia,” presented by Dr. Jeffrey M. Burns. Dr. Burns will discuss the evidence that physical exercise is beneficial for the brain and promotes healthy brain aging. Webinar on Exercise and Dementia with Dr. J[...]
Celebrate the love of caregivers everywhere who are always near to help and comfort. Back at school? As I looked up from my dinner plate, I gazed through the window that looked onto the school fields and beyond. I could see Bolton moors from the School dining room and on a clear day you could see fo[...]
Caring.com announces their Caring Stars of 2013, featuring “America’s best assisted living and Alzheimer’s care communities.” These communities were selected from ratings and reviews posted to the Caring.com site “by senior residents, their families, and eldercare exper[...]
A tour bus driver is driving a bus load of seniors down a highway when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady. She offers him a handful of peanuts. He accepts and gratefully munches on them. About 15 minutes later, she taps him on his shoulder again and hands him another handful of peanut[...]
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the first printing of Finding the JOY in Alzheimer’s – When Tears are Dried with Laughter, we publish “What makes caregiving rewarding?” by Phyllis Major. (TCV Ed.) As a young child, I would run to my mother to complain that [...]
