Category: Health
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Dementia – I Want to Go Home
When I first herd this statement I was perplexed, since I was in the home of a dementia love one. If I was in a nursing home and a loved one made this statement, I would just figure that they wanted to go back home. After a little research, I found out that this is…
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Dementia – Adult Children’s Perspective
I have heard is stated may times: dementia is very hard on the adult children of a parent diagnosed with dementia. When the adult children thinks about their parent stricken with dementia, they still remember their parent a young, vibrant, caring, and cognitive. But, when an other person sees a dementia person, they see an elderly…
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Dementia – Living in Fear
While I was living in Iowa, I was viewing my mom’s dementia from an arm’s reach, without any details in the disease itself. People would state that the dementia people got frustrated by what they could not do anymore. As I saw the situation at the time, it was like they had lost enough gray matter to…
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Journal Entry – Caregivers
I am now in the Rhinelander area with overcast skies and, unbelievable temperatures of 45 degrees. This morning I drove out to my lots north of Rib Lake, with the ground covered with 25 percent snow. It is bleak out here. But, getting a chance to review my lots, it was stimulating for me. I have determined the…
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Dementia – For a Year and Half
It has been over a year since I moved in with mom, and it has been an experience, but not all negative, Mom has made a tremendous change in her demeanor. When I got there, she was all defensive and combative, and now she is more complacent, but still stuck in her ways. As a…
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Dementia – They Can Still Love
Although it seems like mom is in the late stages of Stage 4 out of five stages, her demeanor has changed, with her becoming happy, affectionate, and appreciative, but she can become as obstinate as ever. As for my mom being happy, it is apparent that all dementia patients do not become happy, as from…
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June is Pride Month?
As I grew up here in the heart of America’s Dairyland, June is Dairy month. (For those of you that are not aware, both of my parents grew up on dairy farms.) It is a time when the corps are in the field and alfalfa is being cut in the fields. Want the cows are…
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Dementia – Time is Irrelevant II
Even before we start kindergarten, we have been exposed to a time environment. But, once the kindergarten bell rings for us, our lives are totally dependent on time. But, for a person with dementia, time become irrelevant. As for their caregivers, they will not be able to get their love one on any type of…
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Dementia – Abandonment
Dementia is a such slow process of the deterioration of the brain that family members and friend do not see it coming for years. As the disease takes over, the person will not only show the effects of the disease, like forgetfulness, but they can become rude to their family members and friends. Since some…
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Dementia – Fear II
As for a person suffering from dementia, they fear everything, especially losing their independence. As for the caregivers, a dementia person filled with fear can practically paralyze the good intensions of a caregiver. It is only with resilience that the caregiver will be able to maintain a caring environment. It is like the fight, flee,…
Deflection 