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Is it always the case that someone in a Memory Care environment should not visit their old home for fear of triggering confusion or a desire to stay there again? Or are there examples where it can be a positive temporary experience? (In our case no one else is currently living in that home. It is located about 20 minutes…
Happy 2026 to all our front porch friends. Hopefully this new year will be a better year for each of us and for our Country. Everyone is probably sound asleep right now and I will be in a few minutes, too. Stormy needed to go outside for a minute and I just thought I would get 214 started. See you later.
Hi, My mom was newly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s like 2 weeks ago. I’m so lost. I’m mad I’m angry I’m sad and I’m scared. I’m scared of the future and not knowing what that will look like. I feel like I’m failing my mom. Like I should have been able to prevent her getting Alzheimer’s. I have no help. It’s all on me. I feel…
My wife is in midstage Alzheimer’s, living at home with me as her only caregiver. She manages all her ADLs except showering. I remind her in the morning to shower, and most days she skips it. I know because either I don’t hear the shower running, or if she does turn it on I know she doesn’t get in because her towels are…
Hi everyone ,My name is Kerry. I’m living with dementia, and like many of you, I’m navigating a lot of feelings and emotions. I’ve reached a point where I’m really craving connection with others who understand this from the inside, not as caregivers, not as observers, but as people living it every day. I’ve noticed that…
My wife has for a long time had delusions and some hallucinations (about 3 years) but she has recently started to talk to people that are not there. She is I think early stage 7, but in the DBAT it has that in the section of the final weeks. I know every case is different but for those that have experienced this what has…
As I sit here with the love of my life in her last days, my heart continues to be overflowing with gratitude. I’m also the saddest I’ve ever been, but every walk I’ve taken the last few months I’ve been hit by the beauty of this world, the joy I had in meeting and getting loved the way I’ve been loved and loved my DW. I am…
Does anyone have suggestions re finding a therapist with experience in Alzheimer's caregivers? I've gone to several websites, selected Alz. and have been given a list. But when I click on an individual therapist and see their specialty not one of them lists Alz. I might be going about this the wrong way. Any advice? P.S. I…
DH is doing everything he can to avoid accepting his dementia diagnosis. He’s still working and driving even though he has been told not to. I have reported him to the DMV and just waiting for them to do his evaluation. I am under so much stress. DH can’t do the financial stuff, I have to manage his medication, I handle…
My mother with dementia is in assisted living and since last weekend, she has refused to shower (the caregivers assist her) or change clothes. She hasn’t showered in a week and has been wearing and sleeping in the same clothes for 5 days. I’m mortified. They keep trying and I even tried to talk her into it on the phone…
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