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Here is a couple that has put on more than 500 musical shows in assisted living homes to aid people with Alzheimer. People react to music and participation is strongly encouraged.
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Curtis Lee was in a fog in an Illinois care facility in March, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, when he looked over at his wife of 51 years and suddenly announced that he was somebody else.
“He said, ‘My name is Choy,'” said his wife, Violet Lee. “I said, ‘Does Mr. Choy have a first name?’ and he said, ‘Paul.’ I said, ‘Well, then who is Curtis Lee?’ He just smiled and went off to La-La Land.”
The question of who is Curtis Lee and who is Paul Choy now haunts Violet Lee, 71, who believes her husband was born in Honolulu to a prominent family and attended Punahou School, but has been living under an assumed identity for at least half a century.
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For people with Alzheimer a stay in a hospital can just be the tipping point to have to resort to a nursing home or even worsen their condition such that they die earlier than expected.
With personal experience about this I’m happy to see that now some research has been done into this topic and the findings have been confirmed.
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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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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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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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