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Re: Her Signs In Stage 8
I do believe that my first husband made an appearance after his death. I kept brushing it off and perhaps it was a vivid dream but to me it was as clear as a bright sunny day. About a week after his …7 -
Re: 65 days in memory care
This is heartbreaking. Maybe have alone time with him outside in a garden or private area where you can just be with him, hold his hand, and tell him you love him. I don’t think removing him for a ni…5 -
Re: When siblings do not help
In the same boat, unfortunately. My mother's had dementia for several years, but after my dad passed in December, it's become severe. None of my siblings seem to care, none have even seen h…2 -
Re: The Clock Stopped
Yep, almost exactly the same here too. My DH keeps switching out remotes in different rooms, cause “ his won’t work.” It’s very frustrating because then all the remotes need to be reprogrammed. He ha…2 -
Questions about memory care
My husband has been in a secure memory care unit for 3 weeks. It's noisy and the shared areas are crowded. About a third of the residents are non-verbal. There are 18 patients with a nurse and t…3 -
Family support when overwhelmed
As nearly every caretakers knows it is easy to become overwhelmed. At my advanced aged, I had gotten to the point of considering both of us going into Assisted Living. Our 5 kids had already been dis…8 -
Re: Teaching Myself To Breath
For me the way to stop, be still and just breathe is with music. Only instrumentals. Smooth jazz, maybe classical or piano for me.1 -
Re: The Clock Stopped
So sad to see our loved ones struggling with things that are so simple or that they were expert at before. The remote was one of the first things DH had trouble with. Now he doesn’t even know what th…3 -
Re: The Clock Stopped
The remote/tv has become a constant source of confusion and frustration.3 -
Re: The Clock Stopped
My wife has very similar problems. Mid-stage FTD and struggles with her phone, falling for scams, unable to turn on her computer even with one of our favorite passwords to open it, can not get the tv…5
Commonly Used Abbreviations
DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
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