*** Try this with someone you know who has dementia and may or may not use a cane or walker. You’re walking down the hall together, side by side, and you ask, “How are you?”. The person you are ...

It is a universal, fundamental, and historical fact that people want to live and die in their own homes.  No one ever says, “I can’t wait to move into a nursing home!” Sadly, however, most people do not have the ...

Heed this, Caregivers, living your 36 hour day. *** Everybody knows that there just aren’t enough hours in the day, and sometimes sleep seems like a time consuming nuisance.  But research has shown there are lots of health ailments related ...

*** Alzheimer’s disease initially attacks the centers of the brain responsible for storing new memories and utilizing language.  When teaching functional activities to someone with Alzheimer’s disease, it is important to come up with ways to instruct a task that ...

I had a gentleman the other day who has been declared “dependent” by the assisted living staff for over a year.  He has a diagnosis of late stage Alzheimer’s, although I suspect there is some Parkinson’s disease at play here ...