Category Archives: Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years

The Groups that Offered the Supports to the Caretakers as Motivation to Keep Going

From a neurologist, on seeing how the members of the caretakers’ group showed each other the emotional, the practical supports, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… Working in the medical fields for long, there’s, that blindspot, and I’d felt, … Continue reading

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Everything Will Get Better

On caretaking, how things slowly, got on track…translated… My mother-in-law as she turned eighty, she’d, started, losing the clarity of her mind, she’d waken us up in the middle of the nights, because she couldn’t find things, refusing to get … Continue reading

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In a Parallel World

Visiting her mother at the home, where her mother lies, in a, statuesque state, translated… As I was headed out, the sun is still high up in the skies, only the cumulonimbus in the distance looked, more than apparent.  There’s … Continue reading

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Elderly Caring for the Elderly, the Caretakers’ Psychological Health Needed to be Tended to

Observations, from the INFLUX of cases of murder of their loved ones who needed long-term care!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated… The recurrence of tragedies in long-term care, the head of NTU Health Policy and Management Graduate School, … Continue reading

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Another Tragedy of Long-Term Care: the Elderly Fed Acid to his Wife, then Drank it to Commit Suicide

This is a HUGE problem, with the population AGING too fast, oh, and compounded with that reduction in BIRTH RATE, this is, what will keep on, happening, tragedy STRUCK, once, again, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… The elderly … Continue reading

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When Those with Dementia Wanted to Work, Who Will Provide Them with a Friendly Environment to Work in?

A dream, I suppose, for the society, how we all work together, to make one another’s life easier, to help those who are diagnosed, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… A former instructor contacted me, he knew I was … Continue reading

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The Pains of the Tramping Parents…Switching to an Alternative Space to Feel Lonely in

The troubles of the aging elderly parents in this day and age, the real cases of elderly parents, getting kicked around, “shipped”, from one child’s home to the next, in rotation, because we’re ALL, responsible for caring for our, elderly, … Continue reading

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Frozen in Their Youths

They were, frozen in their youths, never to age anymore, it’s like, time has, no effect on them one bit!  Frozen in their youths, they’d become, they’d all, regressed, back into their childhood innocent states, they’d smiled, like those innocent … Continue reading

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Taking My Mother to Class, Our New Routines

On elderly caretaking, engaging her mother who’s diagnosed with dementia more, to help her get more socialization with her external environment, translated… “Mom has Alzheimer’s!”, at the end of last year, a written diagnosis confirmed our, sisters’, worries, and ever … Continue reading

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Watching Her Days Fade

She sat, watching her days fade, and, not felt a thing, she’d become, totally unaware of her, surrounding environment, she doesn’t even, recognize that favorite youngest son of hers anymore! Watching her days fade, that, is all she can do, … Continue reading

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