Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts

Friday, June 17, 2016

President of Publix Super Markets Charities Carol Jenkins Barnett Diagnosed with Younger Onset Alzheimer's

Carol Jenkins Barnett Chairman and President of Publix Super Markets Charities, has been diagnosed with younger onset Alzheimer’s disease.


Carol Jenkins Barnett diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's Front Row

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....

To be a caregiver isn’t an easy task. I am sure anyone reading this forum knows that by now. However, the issues aren’t just the actual ‘taking care.’ In addition to the difficulties of care giving, I think many of us struggle with the emotional issues of guilt and frustration, and, quite truthfully, never really knowing if we are doing the right thing...

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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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