Category Archives: Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years
The Eighty-Six Year-Old Drove His Mercedes Hit Nine Cars, Injured Three People
This is just, ONE more reason, W-H-Y, the elderly population should NOT get behind the wheels, and it’s still NOT ageism, but for the safety of you, and those around you, because as we age, our hand-eye-coordination, or reaction time, … Continue reading
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Tagged Traffic Accidents, Why the Elderly Should NOT be Driving
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Secrets My Father & I Shared
After dementia took over, how the daughter made this wedding anniversary memorable for her mother, on her father’s, behalf…translated… Since my father was diagnosed with dementia, he’d started, forgetting things, including the wedding anniversary of him and mom. Thankfully I’d … Continue reading
Next Stop, the Nursing Home
Taking care of one’s elderly, aging parents, it’s, getting harder by the generations here that’s for certain! Translated… Huei told me, that her father-in-law had been staying in the hospitals for over a month now, as his conditions worsened, he’d … Continue reading
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Tagged Placing His Parents in Assisted Living, When You Can No Longer Take Care of Your Own Elderly Parents Alone
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As We Drank & Talked Late that Night
Father and son, sharing a drink, intimacy, and conversation together, a very rare opportunity, for him, to get to know his own, father, translated… My father was orphaned at a young age, raised by his distant relatives, so he was, … Continue reading
The Elders Seeing Spirits? They Should be Taken to the Physicians, and NOT the Exorcists
Because the ASIAN communities are, way too, superstitious, and too, stupid??? Feel free to take an offense on this if you wish! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated… We hosted the premiere of the online movie, “Mom’s catching the … Continue reading
Goals, on Caretaking of the Elderly in the Family
How to, slowly, progress the elder from being more open to the assistance that she may be in need of, translated… My mother-in-law had always been agile, in her eighties, she’d gone to China to travel, but five years later, … Continue reading
Scenes in the Waiting Room of the Hospital
How much money we have, has NOTHING to do, with how kind we are, to our, aging parents here, as this individual had, observed, translated… Awhile back, as I’d started having symptoms of menopause, I no longer was stubborn, started … Continue reading
Accompanying the Demented Elderly Parents, Leaving NO Regrets in Life
Tears of sorrows, but not, of the regrets, off of Front Page Sections, translated… The population aging became, a new topic of interest for the global community now, back in 2018, Taiwan had, entered, into the “society of the elderly”, … Continue reading
Posted in Beliefs, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Experiences of Life, Facts, Issues Surrounding Long-Term Care, Lessons of Life, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, The Passages in Life, the Process of Life, Values of Life
Tagged Aging with Dementia, Her Final Days
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The Love & Hate of the Caretakers
On the darker side of caring for her demented elderly mother, when her mother’s death became, a total, relief for her, translated… Thumbing across the article, “Behind Long-Term Care” by Grass Liu on January 19th, it’d, reminded me of my … Continue reading
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Tagged Personality Shifts in Demented Elderly, Symptoms of Dementia, the Caretaker's Journal
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The False Scares of Dementia for the Elderly Parents Around the Holidays
From the Neurologist’s Office, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… The New Year’s coming, working in the giant tall white towers, I can’t help, but share some things with the rest, something I’d, discovered, around the holidays. Every year … Continue reading
Posted in Aging Well, Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Opinions, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, The Passages in Life, the Process of Aging, the Process of Life, Values of Life
Tagged False Scares, Spend More Time with One's Own Elders
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Life, the Obstacle Course 