No Saints around Here: A Caregiver’s Days A beautifully written chronology of caregiving by Susan Allen Toth during the last months of her husband’s life with Parkinson[...]
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[...]
Do I Matter if I’m a Caregiver? Family caregivers and professionals matter. I thought I mattered while I was a full-time caregiver, though not everyone agreed. And despite th[...]
A Parkinson’s disease story – My Grandmother’s Essence Guest article by Lynette Juul In a waiting room recently, I picked up the latest issue of Neurology Now. Af[...]
Diagnosing Dementia too early can be dangerous. For over a century, dementia could only be diagnosed after autopsy. This left millions of people with dementia and their families co[...]
If necessity is the mother of invention, Maura Horton is the mother of Magna Ready stress-free dress shirts necessary for people with Parkinson’s and other illnesses that mak[...]
In TYPES of Dementia – leading causes, we discussed a handful of the leading causes of dementia: Alzheimer’s, Lewy body disease, vascular dementia, and Parkinson’[...]
As research helps increase our awareness of the different causes of dementia, The Caregiver’s Voice offers a summary of the leading causes of dementia with a follow-up overvi[...]
Lewy Body Dementia Association to host a webinar - Caring for the Caregiver, Strategies for Healthy Living and Coping Link: Lewy Body Dementia Symptom Checklist[...]
This eye-opening story from Berrie Holtzhausen of Dementia Namibia, (Namibia is a country in the southwestern region of Africa) had me reflecting on what it means to be a more [...]
Ways to prevent elderly trips and falls at home Guest post by Matthew Ward In the bedroom, the bathroom and the toilet there is the potential for elderly people to trip or fall and[...]
