Dementia Weekly | Alzheimer's Weekly: 2012 Drug Trials Edge Towards an Alzheimer's Cure

Dementia Weekly | Alzheimer's Weekly: 2012 Drug Trials Edge Towards an Alzheimer's Cure

Dementia Weekly | Alzheimer's Weekly: Holiday Hints

Dementia Weekly | Alzheimer's Weekly: Holiday Hints: Tips for helping people with dementia and caregivers when visiting family, friends & neighbors during the holiday season.

Trauma Informed Care

For the last year and some months I've been teaching hospital mental health carers in crisis prevention intervention. Noting that many people with mental health issues are also survivors of trauma throughout life, I studied trauma informed care. I recently in August trained to teach crisis prevention with a strong focus on trauma informed care. The results of a lifetime of trauma or a single trauma event, whether that be living in a scary neighborhood, fighting a long illness, disfigurement, abuse or neglect, rape, incest, or even a diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia, will change brain chemistry and alter how we react to life. In other words, trauma colors the way a person sees the world. It is usually seen as unsafe, untrustworthy. As I study more (I'm reading a book entitled Scared Sick) I will share what I learn.

Changes coming soon...

Hi all followers. I am going to soon download all of my blog onto a blog on my webiste www.StilMee.com. I hope I see that you will follow me there. We're also updateing the website to include news from StilMee and news of breakthroughs in Alzheimer research and care. All my columns from Matters of the Mind featured in the South Shore Senior News will be available on the site as well. Gotta keep up with the times and become a website extroidinaire (doubt that will take place but then who knows what miracles happen to an elder's mind).

Dementia & Alzheimer's Weekly: Solanezumab, a Top Alzheimer's Experimental Drug, ...

Dementia & Alzheimer's Weekly: Solanezumab, a Top Alzheimer's Experimental Drug, ...: VIDEO & ARTICLE Solanezumab slowed Alzheimer's by 30% in a trial earlier this year. Find out what it's maker, Ely Lilly, plans for the nex...

My new e-book

Good news from this blogger! My e-book New Trends in Alzheimer Care; Finding the Spirit Within will be released within a few weeks by Strategic Publishing. It piggybacks on my book Matters of the Mind...and the Heart to discuss new trends in caring for the person with dementia and then tells my personal journey with my mother in law Bette. It was quite a rollercoaster ride for me and not always an easy one. I did learn a lot about dealing with very independent minded and self-focused people and a lot about myself in the meantime. I think we often learn more about ourselves than the people we care for in the caregiving journey. So, look for it. It will be available for Kindle and the like from Barnes and Noble, Target, and other outlet stores. Enjoy.

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Dementia & Alzheimer's Weekly: How to See Pain when Dementia Blocks Communication...: VIDEO Watch Teepa Snow demonstrate how to detect pain in a person with dementia and how you can adapt to communicate and help them.