Dementia

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… Read More »Caring for someone living with dementia

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… Read More »Sandy Little

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… Read More »Musings on Dementia

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… Read More »Consciousness Is Never Affected

“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… Read More »On Caregiving

Yesterday I got a phone call from a Zimbabwean man who works in a wine cellar in Rawsonville. His parents live in Zimbabwe, about 90… Read More »Poverty and Hardship

Yesterday I was asked about a person living with dementia who scratches himself until his skin bleeds. “Is this normal for people living with dementia?”… Read More »The Need for Stimulation

Allow me to share this in a new post…in one of my musings on the mind, I asked my friend Nader Robert Shabahangi his opinion… Read More »On Mind and Consciousness