Knowing that the day is coming when your loved one -- won't know you-- is the most horrific feeling of them all for an Alzheimer's caregiver. AFR is an Alzheimer's Reading Room companion website.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Rewiring My Brain and Stepping into Alzheimer's World
Once you start to understand how things work in Alzheimer's World you get calm and comfortable. Once you get calm and comfortable you give off a better "vibe" to someone that has Alzheimer's.
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
I would find a new way to communicate with my mother who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
I wrote that on my da Vinci pad in 2004. This was at the same time I was coming to another conclusion, something had to change and that something was me.
I did not perceived the changes in communication as being difficult. After all, I had been studying communication and decision making all the way back to college days, and ever since. I figured some practice and I would get the hang of it.
What I did not immediately perceive was how difficult it would be to change all the things I had learned over the course of my life.
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Rewiring My Brain and Stepping into Alzheimer's World
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Confessions of an Alzheimer's Caregiver
True confession from an Alzheimer's activist, wife, caregiver....
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Confessions of an Alzheimer's Caregiver
Saturday, July 10, 2010
The Power of Positive Language
Is it true?...Is it necessary?...Is it kind?...By Tom and Karen Brenner

Dr. Maria Montessori, the first woman to become a physician in Italy and the founder of the Montessori educational method, was also a pioneer in the use of positive language. Her message to parents and teachers at first seems so simple,
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