Alzheimer’s Dementia Caregiving By Linda Fodrini‐Johnson, MA, MFT, CMC Founder & Chairman, Eldercare Services Almost 80% of all caregiving is provided by families. For survival and quality of life, for both the person with the illness and the primary family caregivers, the following tips are vital for good health and Alzheimer’s dementia caregiving. Understand the illness Read More
Exercise for Alzheimer’s
Exercise for Alzheimer’s by Michelle Kicherer of BananaPitch.com Exercise for Alzheimer’s is vital. We are only days away from the Alzheimer’s Walk in Walnut Creek, CA, at Heather Farms Park, October 17. What better way to get some exercise on a nice fall morning than by spending it with friends and family, and by raising money and Read More
Falling Snow So Clear
Falling Snow: A Story About Memory by Michelle Kicherer I remember the first time I experienced falling snow. I was standing outside a hotel in Chicago. It was February. We were both wearing many layers under our jackets because it was seven degrees and we were from California, and did not have legitimate coats. In Read More
85 Years Old & Love at First Sight
Love at First Sight for Seniors By Linda Fodrini‐Johnson, MA, MFT, CMC Founder & Chairman, Eldercare Services I was watching a lovely short film “Love at First Sight” on public televisions’ “Image Makers” last evening and was touched to the heart of my soul because the story is about someone who has significant memory loss Read More
Would You Want to Know You Were Going to Get Alzheimer’s?
According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, scientists think in the next few years they will have a blood test for predicting Alzheimer’s that is almost 90% accurate. Some bioethicists claim this information could be devastating for individuals and family and color all dimensions of life with a dark crayon. However, both the Alzheimer’s Association Read More
Alzheimer’s at Young Ages – “Still Alice”
Julianne Moore does an incredible job at playing the part of brilliant, 50-year-old college professor “Alice” who recognizes her own symptoms of a brain disorder – thinking, of course, that it must be a brain tumor. She was forgetting words and directions with more frequency; her normal thought process seemed just a little “out of Read More
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