Alzheimer’s Notes

September 15th, 2007

Alzheimer’s Stories: In Sickness and in Health.

Abe Hoffman and his wife Helen live on separate floors of an assisted living facility. Helen has Alzheimer’s disease. Every day at 4 pm they have a ‘date’. Abe tells her about their life together and they sing. This is their story…

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September 11th, 2007

Alzheimer’s Poetry Project in Arizona.

An NBC report on the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) by the NORAZ Poets group in Arizona. Using classical poems such as Longfellow’s The Arrow, the poetry readings are designed to stimulate brain activity. There are 19 facilities in Arizona participating in this project and the response has been positive.

NORAZ Poets see the Arizona […]

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July 25th, 2007

Homemade Lemonade, Memories & Alzheimer’s

  As I read Kristen King’s post, Traditional Summer Refreshment: Homemade Iced Tea, at Lively Women, and her reminiscenses of her mother making this brew, I also recalled my mom making homemade refreshing beverages on hot summer days.  I grew up on a farm, long enough ago that soda pop was a rare treat. 
So Mother […]

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July 11th, 2007

Book on Alzheimer’s by 11 year old to be published.

Remember Joseph Voight, the 11 year old who had written a book about his grandmother and Alzheimer’s disease. Well, it looks like good things are happening for him. Since the last post I wrote about hime, he has been interviewed by local TV networks, CNN, and various newspapers.
He has also obtained a book contract with […]

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June 26th, 2007

With the Hopelessness Can Come Joy in Alzheimer’s

So many people consider caring for an Alzheimer’s patient a hopeless situation, one filled with saddness and dispair.  Frequently whatever is written or filmed contains the aura of hopelessness. 
I’m glad there’s an increasing awareness of Alzheimer’s and it’s devastation to family members, victims, and society.  However, I like people to realize that, since we can’t, at […]

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May 23rd, 2007

Living with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Here’s a video well worth watching. Filmed by the grandson of an Alzheimer’s patient, it show the face of Alzheimer’s disease in a humorous, factual, and heart touching way.

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November 8th, 2006

Alzheimer’s & the Shrinking Brain Observed

My mom stood in the doorway shuffling her feet but not moving.  She looked at me and asked, “What do I do?” 
I touched her right leg and answered, “Move this leg.”
“Oh,” she remarked, then lifted her foot.  “Like this.”  And she started walking across the room.
I’d often wondered, as Mother gradually lost her capabilities, if […]

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