Category Archives: Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years
Solving the Riddles
What stayed after everything is gone, is that love that’s, always been, there, on how what’s most important will stay, even after dementia had, taken everything of our loved ones, away, translated… The outbreaks made the homes into a locked … Continue reading
Building a Friendly Community for the Demented Elderly, Helping Them Come Home
As we’re, already in the era of, super elderly here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… There’d been the families of demented elderly who’d told me, “you kept calling to the public to take a note of the matter … Continue reading
Posted in Beliefs, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Facts, Lessons of Life, Philosophies of Life, The Passages in Life, the Process of Life, Unsafe in the World, Values of Life
Tagged Taking Care of Demented Elderly Family Members, Ways to Prevent Demented Elderly from Getting Lost
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Dementia & Her Cat
Dementia got a cat, or rather, it’s the cat, that started, owning her… Dementia lives alone on her own, and, longed to have someone there, to talk to, one day, a cat, came into her home, and started, squatting there. … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Cost of Living, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Experiences of Life, Properties of Life, Ranting About Life, the Consequences of Life, The Passages in Life, the Process of Aging, the Process of Life, Values of Life
Tagged Companionship for the Elderly Years
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His Mind, Invaded by Dementia
Dementia, started, invading his mind, first, it was, only, one single, neuron, then, the dendrites, axons of that one neuron atrophied, and, the atrophies started, spreading across the entire population of his, brain cells, paralyzing every last one of ‘em … Continue reading
Posted in Cost of Living, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Mishaps in Life, Properties of Life, Ranting About Life, the Consequences of Life, The Trials of Life
Tagged Demented Elderly Living Alone, Living Dangerously in the Elderly Years with Dementia, Making Troubles for His Own Loved Ones
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Mimi & Grandpa No Longer Allowed Out
The elderly years, with dementia taking over his mind, and, a cat too, translated… Mimi skipped out, again. It’s not that big a deal, because, he normally only, wanders around the roof of the second story home adjacent to my … Continue reading
The Man Had Smothered His Own Paralyzed & Bedridden Mother to Death, the D.A. Asked the Courts to Take Him into Custody, the Courts Signed Off on it
Another case of, mercy killing, or simply because the man can, no longer, handle the burdens??? Tragedies like this, will keep on, happening, over, over, and over, especially now, as we live longer, the lack of provisions and support from … Continue reading
Using the Long-Term Care Provisions to Help the Separate Families to Gain the Required Skills to Care for Elderly Who Can’t Take Care of Themselves
The mindset of the family members must change, to not think, that if their elderly loved ones is being looked after by professionals, then, they wouldn’t have to put in the time to care for their elderly families, off of … Continue reading
Posted in Beliefs, Cost of Living, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Properties of Life, the Consequences of Life, the Process of Life, Values of Life, Wayward Values
Tagged in Need of Long-Term Care Provision Assistance, Institutionalization of the Elderly Who'd Lost Abilities to Care for Themselves', Starts in the Families
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Be Well, in Order to Provide the Care for Those Who Need You
You must take good care of yourselves, before you can, take care of, anyone, else, hello, hello, hello??? Isn’t that the GOLDEN rule??? Uh, D-U-H!!! Translated… Upon reading “Caring for the Self, or Taking Care of, My Whole Family” by … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Perspectives, Beliefs, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Properties of Life, The Passages in Life, the Process of Aging, the Process of Life, Values of Life
Tagged Getting the Help She Needed to Care for Her Aging Mother, No Need to Handle it Alone, the Golden Rule of Caring for Another
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May I Age Gracefully in the Future
Watching her mother in her dementia, and hoping, that she will be, easier to care for if she were to become demented in her own, elderly years, translated… I’d gone out for afternoon tea with my good friend, Fumi, in … Continue reading
Life, the Obstacle Course 