November is National Family Caregivers & Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month In 1983, three years before his public letter of his own Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Preside[...]
One of the benefits of being a tail-end baby boomer is being the beneficiary of leading-edge boomers who refuse to grow older. This means, instead of being limited as to how and wh[...]
You’re being forewarned! You definitely don’t want to become a caregiver, this way! Nope. No. Not at all. Weeeeaaalll, if you do decide to become a caregiver, you’[...]
The Caregivers Voice debuts a new channel of offerings for caregivers – VIDEO. Everyone loves videos! Right? How else could YouTube rank as the second largest search e[...]
WHAT IF hallucinations are a disEase with reality due to Alzheimer’s, Lewy body, or other cause of dementia? I often wondered this while caring for my father who lived with A[...]
Last month, I wrote this piece for Ezine Articles, The Secret of Robin Williams’ Suicide – What We Do Know. [UPDATE 4/30/2019: Link no longer accessible at Ezine Articl[...]
Avadian’s Mi Casa es Su Casa – Caregiver Humor In a genuine attempt to encourage my father to feel he wasn’t a burden while living with us, my husband and I told [...]
Grandma is a delightfully illustrated book to help children deal with the highs, lows, and misunderstandings that arise when a loved one has dementia. Grandma is the story of Oscar[...]
The United Hospital Fund and AARP Public Policy Institute issued a report today with compelling new evidence that family caregivers who provide complex chronic care to people who a[...]
How to travel with people living with dementia Guest article by Derek Hobson-Nahigyan Surprisingly, most family caregivers decide not to travel with loved ones living with dementia[...]
We hear that remaining active, eating wholesome foods, and using our brain for new and challenging tasks will help delay the onset of dementia. This article looks at the middle ing[...]
Norman Mc Namara has lived with dementia for almost seven years. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at age fifty. A few years later, he was diagnosed instead with Lewy body de[...]
