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Re: Respite/In Home help
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/71980/respite-in-home-help https://alzconnected.org/discussion/71980/respite-in-home-help My wife is also in stage 6, and I have been caring for her for 8 years, 2…6 -
Re: Financial assistance
I am in a similar situation in that I can no longer work full time and care for DH. Financial assistance where I live is through the county and the state. In my case we don’t get financial assistance…6 -
Re: How and when should I tell my DH I am placing him in MC
this makes everything so real. I’m slowly taking things away that could endanger us. His guns are gone, he thinks his sons are saving them for him. I sold his car, he thinks my car is a new one , it’…5 -
Re: Watching TV is a challenge
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/71977/watching-tv-is-a-challenge I am going through the same thing, the only thing he can keep up with are the old TV shows and like you said then he starts with h…5 -
Watching TV is a challenge
I know this is the least of our problems, but since we stay home a lot we watch TV, all the time 🤦♀️problem is he absolutely cannot follow any new program, so we continue to watch all the old shows…7 -
Re: The Finale?
It was a peaceful finale , 34 hours after I got home. The night before I got home I clearly heard her voice calling my name. I got to talk to her and give reassurances that her children grandchildren…8 -
Re: Financial crisis in the making
What a difficult position you are in. You will need to work behind the scenes, you cannot reason with him anymore, his brain is beyond that. You first need to see an elder law attorney, by yourself. …5 -
Re: Watching TV is a challenge
My HWD and I used to watch a movie on tv every night with dinner. It became impossible for him to follow the plot of any shows or movies or figure out who the characters were…he always said we'v…10 -
Re: How and when should I tell my DH I am placing him in MC
Moving My DH into Memory Care This is the promised post of what happened when I moved my DH into an adult family home dedicated to dementia patients. As those on this forum suggested, when he was dro…8 -
Re: To those with LO in memory care
https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/235715#Comment_235715 I am going through the same debate. My DW is in year 10 of Alzheimer's and still sort of Ok. By that I mean she is in stage 6 an…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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