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Huffington post brings you some funny stories about Alzheimer. Good to laugh about this otherwise so devastating disease.
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Category Archives: Human interest
Maria Carrillo about Alzheimer
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Maria Carrillo, a sr director at the Alzheimer association, provides a special at CNN about Alzheimer. She tells about the 5.4 Million American who live with Alzheimer’s disease and makes it personal by talking about her own mother in law who suffers from the disease.
She then goes on to talk about the National Plan to get Alzheimer’s disease under controle by 2025. The plan covers the spectrum of Alzheimer’s issues, including treatment and prevention, clinical care, support for families in their homes and communities as well as public education and engagement.
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Alzheimer’s Patients Turn To Stories Instead Of Memories
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Ask family members of someone with Alzheimer’s or another dementia: Trying to talk with a loved one who doesn’t even remember exactly who they are can be very frustrating.
But here at a senior center in Seattle, things are different.
On one recent day, 15 elderly people were forming a circle. The room is typical — linoleum floors, cellophane flowers on the windows, canes and wheelchairs, and walkers lined up against the wall.
Linda White is leading a session based on a program called TimeSlips. The idea is to show photos to people with memory loss, and get them to imagine what’s going on — not to try to remember anything, but to make up a story.
Storytelling is one of the most ancient forms of communication — it’s how we learn about the world. It turns out that for people with dementia, storytelling can be therapeutic. It gives people who don’t communicate well a chance to communicate. And you don’t need any training to run a session.
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When Your Mom Forgets Who You Are
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I’ll never forget the moment when I realized my mother no longer knew who I was. For every child of a parent with Alzheimer’s, that reality is a devastating one. How could she not recognize me? Her smile was friendly, but her eyes seemed vacant. She appeared confused. She seemed to be asking: Who is this stranger sitting beside me?
I thought of my mother as I watched 59-year-old Tennessee Volunteers coach Pat Summitt announce that she was resigning. For nearly four decades, she had coached the women’s basketball team she loved. The AP reported she was suffering from early-onset dementia. It had reportedly been causing her memory problems. As I watched Coach Summitt courageously announce that “the time has come to step into a new role,” I couldn’t stop thinking of the lost look in my mother’s eyes.
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Alzheimer’s caregivers often suffer in secret
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Nearly every day, Kathy Eslinger takes her lunch break and drives to Whitehall Manor. Her mother recognizes her but doesn’t remember her name.
Eslinger combs her mother’s hair. She sings to her. And when the 85-year-old Alzheimer’s patient yells in fright, Eslinger cries.
“You never know one moment to the next how it’s going to be,” she said Friday, fresh from a good visit with her mother, Rose Doddy.
For family members, Alzheimer’s is as frustrating a disease as it is heart-breaking. Those emotions played out last week in the tragic story of Charles Snelling, a prominent Republican and lifelong patron of the Lehigh Valley. He was found dead Thursday, along with his ailing wife, Adrienne, in their Upper Macungie Township home.
If the Snelling family’s suspicions are true — that he ended her life and his own in anguish over her declining state — his death is a chilling portrait of the stresses saddling caregivers.
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Alzheimer’s at 39
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Michael Ellenbogen was 39 when he first started forgetting little things—acronyms related to his business, work meetings and phone numbers.
“I was always very good in the sense that I could remember everything,” Ellenbogen said. “I didn’t have to write anything down. I would just remember it. And then I started forgetting the names of my employees. I even started to stutter trying to say my own name.”
In the beginning, Ellenbogen’s wife Shari said she wasn’t overly concerned. “When he kept saying he was forgetting things, I would say, ‘Oh, I forget things, too,’” said Shari Ellenbogen, a nurse at Doylestown Hospital in Pennsylvania. She believed it was simply a natural consequence of growing older.
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