By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
It is one of the smallest things that I do time-wise, yet I learn so much from doing it. As a Health Maven for the Caregiving community on Wellsphere.com, I answer questions from others about a wide range of issues in providing care for loved ones. I don’t get paid [...]
Posts under ‘Dementia’
7 Reasons Why Parents Won’t Take Medication
Your Mother’s Day Visit – Being The Caregiver
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
This is Part Two in a two part series about recognizing the signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease so that aging family members can get the help they need.
In Part One, Your Mother’s Day Visit – Seeing Signs of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, I described how Theresa Robaldo recognized [...]
Your Mother’s Day Visit – Seeing Signs of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
This is Part One in a two part series about recognizing the signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease so that aging family members can get the help they need.
By the time Lita Baker came to see Dr. Susan Steen,
Lita, a frail woman in her 80s, was already on Aricept and [...]
Caring For Your Parents: Compelling PBS Documentary Glued Me To My Chair
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
http://www.pbs.org/caringforyourparents
I received an email from my cousin about the PBS documentary, Caring for Your Parents, a few days after it aired on April 2, 2008. He wanted to know if I was going to talk about it here. He thought it was a dynamite show.
I missed it the first [...]
Does Your Parent Want To Sell Her Life Insurance To Speculators?
My father only had a couple thousand dollars of life insurance in force by the time he turned 83. He outlived the term of one policy, so the insurance company paid him the cash value and terminated the policy.
As someone who was deeply affected by the Depression, Dad would probably have jumped at the [...]
Thanksgiving With Dad — How Do You Convince Someone to Accept Help?
The mood was relaxed and happy on the five hour flight from California to New Jersey. It was Thanksgiving Day. The sun was just beginning to set on what must have been an unseasonably warm day on the East Coast. I smiled to myself. The plane had arrived ahead of schedule. I would be at my father’s home in [...]
How To Help Your Aging Parents – Medical Billing
It wasn’t until Dad mailed me the collection notice that I realized he was losing his ability to track and pay his medical bills. He had complained during our phone chats on several occasions that the hospital had messed up his billing. They kept phoning him to get him to pay his bill.
He insisted that he [...]
When Adult Siblings Fight–6 Steps To Heal The Hurt
The court reporter was readying her equipment while waiting for the next case to begin. The bailiff brought in the defendant. The court reporter glanced up to see the next man on trial. Imagine the her shock to see that the defendant being brought into criminal court was her mother’s court appointed guardian!
This man was accused of embezzling from [...]
Where to Start When The Doctor Says Its Dementia
It was during a phone call five years ago with my Dad’s primary care doctor that the “D” word first came up. Dad was in the hospital, again.
He had gastro-intestinal bleeding which the specialists had finally stopped — but not before a series of delirious outbursts about certain marital secrets that had his second wife shouting that she [...]
Thank You OurAlzheimers.com!
When I launched 3GenFamily Blog on Wordpress.com, it was with the intention of sharing a wide variety of issues and ideas about long distance caregiving to help others traveling the same road. I’ve tried to focus on substantive information rather than just telling stories of life caring for an elder with dementia.
When I first started searching for answers to my questions, [...]
