Tag Archives: Caretakers’ Journal
Soliloquy of Dementia
Okay, everybody, get OFF my stage, it’s, MY turn to “perform now”!!! Wait, what was it that we’re, talkin’ ‘bout again? I forgot… I wake up, what day is this? Did I have my meals yet, did my children come … Continue reading
Allowing Her Interests to be Fulfilled, Transferring the Negative Energies, Making Caretaking Much Easier
On how to age better with dementia, translated… My mother-in-law had always been optimistic, and amicable with others. In her eighties, she’d still jam-packed her schedules, very independent. But, after a typhoon had flooded her home, the family started noticing … Continue reading
Posted in Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Elderly Caretaking, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Positives of Life, Properties of Life, the Process of Life, Values of Life
Tagged Aging Better with Dementia, Caretakers' Journal, Tips on Providing Care to Demented Elderly
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During Those Final Days…Drawing a Period on Dad’s Life
The caretaker’s notes, translated… The notebook was the one my older brother kept, of caretaking of my father as he’d fractured his hips, it’s a memo, and, it’d provided us with the connectedness of us, children; the art journal was … Continue reading
Weathered Through the Forgetfulness & the Violence, My Mother Became an Elderly Child
As dementia progressed further, the experiences of a caretaker, translated… My seventy-five year-old mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s eight years ago, and, I’m sure, that the trials, can only be understood, by those with elderly with Alzheimer’s and dementia too. … Continue reading
Posted in Dementia & Other Issues of the Elderly Years, Experiences of Life, Family Relations, Mishaps in Life, Properties of Life, Ranting About Life, the Consequences of Life, the Process of Life, The Trials of Life, Values of Life
Tagged Caretakers' Journal, Physical & Emotional Symptoms of Dementia, Progressions of Dementia, the Process of Deterioration of the Mind
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Becoming More Intimately Physically with My Mother Who’s Diagnosed with Dementia
Caretaker’s journal, from the papers, translated… Shortly after my father had passed away, my mother who’s ninety years ago, not only deteriorated quickly, her ability for comprehension had, reduced to ZERO too, either that she started speaking off topic, couldn’t … Continue reading
Life, the Obstacle Course 