Looks pretty good for a 94 year old with Alzheimer's.
Dotty says,
Well here I am again on this so called blog. Trying to earn a potato chip or an egg. I'm hungry, I'm starving.
What the hell is a blog anyway? Can you eat it?
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You know what happens when an older person has a urinary track infection and they don't know it? They start peeing all over themselves and all over the place.....
The Shriver Report is a groundbreaking, comprehensive examination of the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on American women as caregivers, advocates, and people living with the disease.
The Shriver Report is a groundbreaking, comprehensive examination of the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on American women as caregivers, advocates, and people living with the disease.
"We were pretty amazed that the treatment completely reversed cognitive impairment in 20 days" -- Tim Boyd....
It cost taxpayers about $36,000 to look for a 79-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease who went missing late last month, Virginia Beach Police recently said.
According to the Alzheimer's Association statistics about 60 percent of all Alzheimer's patients will wander. That amounts to about 3 million. Now, not all of them are going to get very far. Lets say that 20 percent get way lost. That comes to 600,000. Lets say it cost a thousand bucks on average to find someone that wanders and gets way lost
The math? 600,000 times 1,000 = ? $600,000,000. Somebody check my math. Read more at www.alzheimersreadingroom.com
What do you believe?
People say and believe that if you smoke the odds of getting Alzheimer's are reduced. Fact or Fiction?
Original content Bob DeMarco, the Alzheimer's Reading RoomRead more at www.alzheimersreadingroom.com
Almost every day I am reminded of one of the most important things I learned about Alzheimer's caregiving -- Just let them do it.
In my case, this refers to my mother Dotty. Dotty has Alzheimer's disease.
Original content Bob DeMarco, the Alzheimer's Reading Room
In order to communicate effectively with a person suffering from Alzheimer's disease you need to come to an understanding that they are now living in a new world -- I often refer to this as Alzheimer's world....
I have been thinking about this for some time -- Am I the Most Fortunate Alzheimer's Caregiver in the World?....
One of the most frustrating things I encounter daily is the vast array of home health aides that, although trained to provide clinical and household help to their elderly clients just aren’t trained well enough in Alzheimer’s Related Disorders.
My own personal experience with the combination of Namenda and Dimebon tells me that this combination works. It worked for my mother.
In Alzheimer's speak "more engaged" means "more there." It means more alive, brighter look on the patients face, actually reacting to stimuli like television and the newspaper.
Forty percent of Alzheimer's patients don't eat enough...this solution could be helpful to you.....
I hadn’t realized, until I read an article in today’s BU magazine online, that a very big problem with Alzheimer’s patients in Alzheimer’s facilities is that they do not eat ENOUGH food. Today’s article is very interesting in finding some reasons for the insufficient food intake.
Original content Max Wallack, the Alzheimer's Reading Room
DURING a snowstorm last winter, my 6-year-old son fell and cut his chin
My husband walked our son, Charlie, through the knee-high snow to the local emergency room.
Charlie’s gash was small, less than half an inch long, but deep. The hospital called in a plastic surgeon, who put 14 tiny stitches into his chin.
The total charges for his minor spill came to $5,398. The largest single charge was a shocking $4,950 from the plastic surgeon.
What happens if your heart stops in the emergency room?
It’s July, and it’s not just the rising temperature and humidity that’s making this a summer of discontent. Healthcare providers are also feeling the heat from an alarming number of drug shortages of critically important medications. Drug shortages can compromise or delay important drug therapy and result in medication errors. According to reports submitted to ISMP, healthcare practitioners are concerned more than ever before about how frequent drug shortages are adversely affecting patient care and exhausting a tremendous amount of hospital resources to address the growing problem.
While drug shortages have long been a problem in healthcare,(1) the number experienced in the past few months is unprecedented, particularly with high use medications, including emergency drugs, pain medications, and anesthetic agents.Read more at www.ismp.org
Good news on Aricept, major price relief coming soon.
Plus, new formulations of Aricept and Namenda offer great promise.
I am getting a lot of search hits from Google on the articles I wrote about generic Aricept and Namenda previously.
I decided to put up an update that includes the currrent state of affairs on the patent expiration for both Aricept and Namenda and when the generic formulation will be available to consumers in the United States.
Original content Bob DeMarco, the Alzheimer's Reading Room
There have been some very subtle changes in Dotty's behavior over the last several weeks. At first, I didn't think much about it.
However, during the past week I started getting that sick feeling in my stomach that I had for years. It is coming back after a long period of dormancy.
Original content Bob DeMarco, the Alzheimer's Reading Room
