Alzheimer’s goes to Hospital!!
Sometimes it is just unavoidable. We had to call an ambulance to take one of our residents to hospital. The Nurses on duty checked everything, and the ECG showed cardiac arrythmia, so she [...]
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08, 2024
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03, 2024
10 TIPS for LIVING with DEMENTIA!
1. Educate Yourself and Your Loved Ones Understanding Dementia: Learn about the specific type of dementia, its symptoms, and how it progresses. This knowledge can reduce fear, set reasonable expectations, and empower you to [...]
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08, 2022
Understand our pain
More than 8 years now, we are caring and loving our people living with some form of Dementia.We live and care for 24 hours a day. We start our shift at 07h00 and [...]
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03, 2022
Saving a Lady
" I do not know if my Mother is well cared for, I feel helpless and I am so far away! I worry, because she cries every time a local friend visits her. [...]
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11, 2021
Man of the Sea – I am!
Everyone said it will be inevitable. I fought in my heart, I fought with my whole existence to keep this virus out of Jura! The Virus will not get through the [...]
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07, 2019
PREVENTING ELDERLY ABUSE
The abuse of elderly people happens in their own homes, while living with family and in facilities responsible for their well being. We must speak up when we suspect that an elderly person is [...]
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06, 2019
WHEN IS THE RIGHT TIME FOR A HOME?
NEVER!!! I want you never to come to the point of placing your Loved One in the care of a Dementia Care Home! I never want you to come and visit our [...]
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11, 2018
It is Hard!
It is 4 years later and all I know is...it is hard! "Mom, just remember you going to have a lot of residents one day. You only have 4 now. You will not [...]
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03, 2018
This Antibody May Halt Brain Injury
Antibodies that can remove toxic protein plaques in the brains of mice may lead to treatments that halt the brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease. This was the conclusion that researchers came [...]
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03, 2018
Dementia: Tips For Communicating With Your Loved One
As we have written before; people with Dementia at times 'live' in their own reality, one which at times can be subtly or dramatically different from our own. This 'inner reality' they live in [...]