Something else I hear often is that people living with dementia become “aggressive” as if it is a “normal part of the illness”. People living with dementia are not emotionally …
Words Make Worlds
Here is a collection of my blogs from over the years on ageing, dementia, death, and dying. Feel free to contact me on raynestroebel@mindsmatter.co.za and follow me on Facebook.
Becoming the caregiver of a spouse or a parent is not what most people have signed up for, interestingly enough. The fact that none of us can actually envisage ourselves …
I was in my mid-twenties when I worked as a Caregiver for Sandy Little in London. Sandy was in his late seventies and living with dementia. Living in his own …
I received the most beautiful email response to my musings on dementia yesterday from one of my employees. (I am really touched by all the responses!) Her father-in-law lives with …
Someone recently made the comment that it must be harder for the family of a person living with dementia to witness the progression than it is for the person living …
“Adopting a sole identity as our care-giver highlights our illness and strips both of us of other identities, we have become care-giver and sufferer, in a relationship of co-dependence… In …