People with dementia often exhibit behaviors that are frustrating, embarrassing, and sometimes even dangerous to the caregiver and others.
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Triggers That Make Alzheimers Worse
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Google Search - Short Term Memory Problems
One of the first signs of dementia is short term memory loss. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia; and, a cause of short term memory problems.
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High Fiber Foods That Make You Poop
Eating high-fiber foods helps you stay fuller longer, keeps you regular, and boosts colon health.
Getting enough fiber can be a challenge, but one certainly worth taking on.
Dr Oz talks about poop on his show regularly. It just never stops amazing me how many people have trouble pooping. Dr Oz wouldn't be spending so much time on poop unless it was a big problem.
Note, the majority of Dr Oz's viewers are women.
Early Signs of Dementia During the Holiday Season
Most people think Alzheimer's occurs when a person loses their memory.
Unfamiliar with the disease, they are unlikely to notice the more subtle behavior changes that accompany the very early stages of Alzheimer's or a related dementia.
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Original content +Bob DeMarco , +Alzheimer's Reading Room
Thanksgiving Should Mom Attend?
Thanksgiving Dilemma - a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives which are usually mutually exclusive.
Alzheimer's World, Real World
As a person becomes deeply forgetful many of the actions they perform seem to be irrational to those of us who believe we are living in a rational world. For purposes of this discussion lets call rational world -- Real World.
Original content +Bob DeMarco , +Alzheimer's Reading Room
Google - dementia medication refusal
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Google Keyword Search - types of dementia
Dementia is a an illness that usually occurs slowly over time, and usually includes a progressive state of deterioration.
The earliest signs of dementia are usually memory problems, confusion, and changes in the way a person behaves and communicates.
The earliest signs of dementia are usually memory problems, confusion, and changes in the way a person behaves and communicates.
Unexpected but Delightful Insights from My Mom with Alzheimer’s
How terrible that someone's "mind would play tricks" on them, I thought. Your "mind" should be your friend; after all it's in your head and not someone else's.
Mother's Day Without My Mom, Dotty
I really missed the remarks that I know Dotty would have made if she had been walking with me (or riding in the wheelchair). Dotty would have had something to say about the people, or the dogs, or the tattoos, or the flowers. Dotty always had observations all her own.
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To be honest last year's Mother's Day wasn't very good as Dotty was confined to bed and dying. I really don't remember much if anything about that day.
This year it was if the idea of Mother's Day just wouldn't stick in my mind. It just wouldn't stick. I didn't wake up thinking its Mother's Day like I did on Christmas day, or New Year's day, or Valentine's day.
I have Dotty here with me, so once I realized it was Mother's Day I did say, Happy Mother's Day Dotty.
Why was it that I couldn't seem to remember it was Mother's Day?
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Dementia, Accusations, and Fractured Fairy Tales
The natural tendency for all caregivers is to try and explain, and sometimes in a heated fashion, that we did not do what we are being accused of by a dementia patient.
For example, it is not uncommon for dementia patients to say someone is stealing money from them. It is also fairly common for women living with Alzheimer's to guard their purse. Even to take it to bed with them at night.
It is one thing when a dementia patient accuses someone else of stealing, and totally different when they accuse you, the primary caregiver of stealing.
Somehow we don't get as upset when someone other than ourselves is being accused.
However, when we are being falsely accused we have a need to defend ourselves, and our reputation.
Have you ever been falsely accused by someone suffering from Alzheimer's?
Don't Blame Alzheimer's, Change
There came a time when I realized that not only was Alzheimer's trying to kill Dotty's brain, it was also trying to kill my brain. Alzheimer's is a sinister disease.
By Bob DeMarco
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When Dotty would do something that caused heartaches or stomach aches I would eventually try and convince myself, relax, its the Alzheimer's that is causing the problems.
It didn't work. I kept getting the heartaches and stomach aches over and over and over.
Alzheimers Caregivers are the Chosen
If you are the Chosen One you will be reborn, you will be reborn as an Alzheimer's caregiver. When the fog clears, you'll assume your new role. For most of us, this will be the greatest challenge of our lives. We rise to the occasion. How do you explain our ability to rise up, out, and above ourselves? There must be an explanation.
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'We Back Pat" Billboard Takes it to the Streets
A giant "We Back Pat" billboard was rolled up to the Legislative Plaza in Nashville, Tennessee yesterday with the purpose of bringing awareness of Alzheimer's to the state legislature and citizens of Tennessee. Volunteers from Alzheimer's Tennessee accompanied the billboard and assisted those who wanted to add their signatures to the board.
Its seems to me that this is an excellent way to raise awareness, and also to get the attention of politicians. Next the billboard will move around the state and give more supporters the chance to sign it.
Eventually, the billboard will be mounted in a place where Pat Summitt can see it on her drive from home to work at the University of Tennessee.
You will notice a lot of younger people in the video below, very uplifting. This seems like a very effective campaign which could be modeled in other states.
Watch the video in the Alzheimer's Reading Room
http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2012/03/we-back-pat-movement-and-billboard.html
Its seems to me that this is an excellent way to raise awareness, and also to get the attention of politicians. Next the billboard will move around the state and give more supporters the chance to sign it.
Eventually, the billboard will be mounted in a place where Pat Summitt can see it on her drive from home to work at the University of Tennessee.
You will notice a lot of younger people in the video below, very uplifting. This seems like a very effective campaign which could be modeled in other states.
Watch the video in the Alzheimer's Reading Room
http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2012/03/we-back-pat-movement-and-billboard.html
Alzheimer's Quote Husband Wife
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Alzheimers Disease -- Communication Skills and Coping with Behavior (1)
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In the early days of Alzheimer's caring the caregiver deals with a disease that is difficult, sometimes impossible, to understand.
Alzheimer's disease turns the world of the Alzheimer's caregiver upside down.
This person, your loved one, begins to act out behaviors that you have never seen or experienced.
You are forced to try and deal with these behaviors. It is not easy.
Original content Bob DeMarco, the Alzheimer's Reading Room
Dotty Says, Most Doctors are Quacks
We gotta stop watching that Dr Oz show. If they put Dr Oz and Bobby in the same room all they would talk about is poop.By Dorothy DeMarco
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Bobby says, I am a lovable character. I also heard him say that I am a "bitch". I have to admit I don't remember him saying that in a long time.
I guess I feel the same way about Bobby. Bobby is a good son. Bobby is also a "pain in the ass sometimes".
The Million Email Crusade for Alzheimer's
Did Albert Einstein say, “The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest....."Most people interpret this quote as referring to interest rates -- the interest rate, or rate of return you earn on your investments.
It is doubtful that Einstein actually said these words.
Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading Room
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That said, there can be little doubt that there is a powerful force in the universe -- the compound interest of man(kind).
When people band together to accomplish a mission they become a very powerful force. The force of change.
I receive email and comments on this blog from people complaining that Alzheimer's disease is misunderstood; and, if people understood Alzheimer's they would be doing more about the disease (problem).
I agree there is a problem.
I wonder can we, the collective brain of the Alzheimer's Reading Room, become a solution to the problem. What can We do to change the situation?
I am envisioning something we could do right here on the Alzheimer's Reading Room. An all out effort to make a major difference in the future funding for Alzheimer's disease research.
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