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Oh how I wish she would go! She calls it "Granny Day Care" and refuses to go.
I wanted her to go over a year ago. I told her recently that she would have made some new friends by now but she wants no part of it. I think they could accommodate the visual impairment there as well as the cognitive impairment.
She doesn't see herself as an older person, but she's 87!
Shaking my head....
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| Are Alzheimer's Caregivers the Forgotten? |
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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
Finally, when her anger and confusion were slipping out of our control, I moved her into an assisted-living facility, where on each painful visit I see the changes as she disappears a little more.
A friend calls it grieving, like saying goodbye by going to the same funeral over and over again.
"It's really challenging to grieve someone that's sitting right in front of you," said Kallmyer. "It's really challenging to grieve someone that you've just helped take a bath and get them dressed."
"Because it's such a long process and a long road that a family travels down together, it changes family dynamics," said Pring. "And it takes away all our preconceived notions about how families should look and how they should function."
"I know that he will always be in my life," Jan said.
