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 [...]
Three helpful steps you can take to return to a normal routine after being a caregiver. Guest post by Ron Whitaker Whether you were a primary caregiver or shared responsibility for caregiving being a caregiver had a major impact on your life. You may have had to cut back on work hours or resigned fr[...]
ENCORE – The Caregiver’s Voice (TCV) recognized the following Caregivers of the Month of 2012. This spring, The Caregiver’s Voice will launch a new website and a new TCV Features program, which will replace our Caregiver of the Month program. Click on the link or photo to be inform[...]
It’s almost the end of the month. What one step have you taken with one goal? “Yeah, yeah,” you say, “It’s only another year and a new month on the calendar.” Well, you’re right. It is. But it still is a popular milestone–like celebrating your birthday[...]
Late last year, I began brainstorming with Jessie Phillips of Jessie Design to create a new logo for The Caregiver’s Voice because the website is also being redesigned (see this coming Wednesday’s post). Jeniffer Thompson (Monkey C Media), her designer, Julio, and I had jointly created t[...]
Martha Stettinius’ Inside the Dementia Epidemic–A Daughter’s Memoir [TCV Update 9/17/2024 URL to InsideDementia no longer available.] is a deeply personal account of her fractured relationship with her mother–from when her mother threw her out of her house through her five-ye[...]
