Why a Care Home?
Why did I do this? Why did you open a Home, Jura Care, for people living with Dementia? Today I also do not know! Just the other day, rushing a patient to the [...]
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03, 2025
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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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09, 2016
9 Dementia Symptoms Most People Ignore
Early stages of Dementia are often very mild, meaning they can be overlooked and simply put down to 'getting older’. These are some tell-tale symptoms many people ignore: Subtle short-term memory changes [...]
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02, 2016
Tables of Thanks
How do we thank two young people whom we've met? How do we tell them how much we admire them, the young still caring for the elders? Two young people came for [...]
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03, 2015
Antipsychotics shouldn’t be a default drug for dementia
Earlier this month, Health Canada announced new restrictions on the prescribing of risperidone, an antipsychotic drug commonly given to dementia patients to control aggression and other behaviour problems. The news didn’t receive [...]