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Dorian Martin

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posted 04/14/2008, comment (1)

Gifts From Your Loved One- Sometimes It's Just A Peace of Mind

Mara and I were trading stories over the weekend about aging parents and dementia. Mara's mother currently is in a nursing home with dementia while her father passed away a long time ago. At one point in the conversation, Mara recounted, "I was putting on some earrings recently that my mother had given me and this suddenly made me so... Read more Chevron

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Christine Kennard

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posted 04/14/2008, comments (2)

Intimacy and Dementia: Is There a Time to Stop Having Sex?

Intimacy with Dementia: Is There a Time to Stop Having Sex? The issue of expressed sexuality during dementia remains something of a taboo. Within residential settings the complexity of the topic is often compounded by the attitudes of caregivers or even the design and layout of the building. In this posting I fall back on just a couple of my... Read more Chevron

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Eric J. Hall

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posted 04/09/2008, comments (2)

Teens Impacted by Alzheimer’s Disease Learn Life Lessons

It's one thing to do a survey about Alzheimer's disease: we learn about trends and issues that need our attention. AFA's latest survey, as I noted in last week's column, about ‘sandwich caregivers'-folks caring for an older relative with Alzheimer's disease as well as caring for their own young children to young... Read more Chevron

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Christine Kennard

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posted 04/09/2008, comment (1)

Americans Face Critical Shortage of Geriatricians

A recent article in the Lancet, a leading UK medical journal, has highlighted the fact that the elderly with multiple health problems do better when treated by teams led by geriatricians. However, the number of geriatricians remains critically low. Currently there are just 7000 in the USA. The American Geriatrics Society has warned that the aging... Read more Chevron

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Carol Bradley Bursack

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posted 04/09/2008, comments (2)

“Could It Be Dementia?” A Caregiving Book Packed With Compassion and Information

I'm still frequently amazed at how much the Internet shrinks the world. An author in the United Kingdom was researching her book on dementia and Alzheimer's disease. She came across some of my work, and quoted an article I'd written a couple of years ago, for Minding Our Elders. Of course, I was pleased and honored that she quoted me... Read more Chevron

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