Dementia Weekly | Alzheimer's Weekly: Art Rises Above Alzheimer's

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I'm going back to painting on canvas...pronto! You should too; find an expression that takes you out of the material world into the spiritual. I'm starting with an old worn barn, a large scraggly tree topped with a sprawling display of pink roses, a composite of photos I've taken recently while on my daily 1 hour walk no more than 2 miles of my own home. One doesn't get this perspective driving a car. Go out; walk, and smell the roses!

More time please

I wish I had more time; more time to explore new treatment, more time to write about them and things I've uncovered when coaching caregivers, and more time period. I'm 72 and wondering how much time I have left on this terrestrial ball. I love what I do, love the caregivers I meet and love learning how much progress is either being made or imagined. I wish I could work myself out of a job but it looks like Alzheimer's and related dementias are going to be around for awhile yet.
I think the focus should be on adding quality to a person's life. there are so many ways you can do this. Share what you've learned brings joy to your care recipient's life. It will encourage many.

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Dementia Weekly | Alzheimer's Weekly: 25% Drop in Dementia Offers New Optimism

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Too much heat

I don't know what the weather is elsewhere, but here in Boston it is staying in the 90s. I took a walk for an hour yesterday (as I promised myself I would do daily about a month or so ago) and thought of the elders sitting in low income apartments without air conditioning, waiting on helpers to show up to clean, make a meal or give a shower. I used to be in homecare services in inner Boston and remember how hot those places were.
Now as an Alzheimer coach I feel for the elder with dementia who has trouble expressing how they are feeling, suffering with the heat and perhaps their caregiver being unaware of the impact of it all on their care recipient. I wrote a column about this recently (this month actually) in the South Shore Senior News. Go to our website www.StilMee.com and click on Resource page. There click on www.SouthShoreSenior.com and read that column called Summer Behaviors and others I've submitted over the last 8 years. The editor, Greg Porell, is always gracious and prints every last one of them. Bless him.