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A Lewy Body patient

By Shirley Lay
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Long Term Care

This article describes Lewy Body symptoms from a patient’s point of view. It describes what life is like when your abilities, like your sight, are constantly changing.

Alzheimer’s Safe Return

By Alzheimer's Association (USA)
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare

Safe Return® is a nationwide identification, support & enrollment program that provides assistance for an Alzheimer’s or related dementia person wanders & becomes lost locally & far from home. It includes ways to enroll.

Bathing Sparky

By Gwendolyn deGeest RN, BSN, MA
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare

�a dog provides creative solutions for bathing a person with dementia. The author shares ideas for helping your loved one to take their next bath.

Leeza Gibbons Tells The Most important Story of All: Her Family’s Journey with “The Thief”

By Leeza Gibbons
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

The author shares her experiences with Alzheimer’s with her grandmother and mother.

Alzheimer’s Disease Fact Sheet

By National Institute On Aging
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Research

This article explores how Alzheimer’s illness starts and grows in a patient, treatment options and how to empower caregivers who look after them. Includes resources to look for help as well.

Wish You Were Here

By Gwendolyn deGeest RN, BSN, MA
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions

The author interviews one of her clients regarding the onset and discovery of her husbands Alzheimer’s and her experiences with the disease.

Chapter 12: Reflexologist

By Connie Siewert
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Death and Dying
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Long Term Care
  • Wellness

The author has chosen to share her chapter on reflexology to empower caregivers with a healing therapy that can be helpful in relieving pain, restoring balance and putting both patient and caregiver in a more relaxed state.

Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

By Pattie Caprio
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions

This article is about 3 overlaping disorders that have grown rapidly mostly in women (90 %) and (10%) men. The author is joining her efforts to get National Recognition for fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and multiple chemical syndrome.

Breast Cancer Husband:

By Marc Silver
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions

The author shares what a husband must do to support a wife with breast cancer.

Sensible Self-Help For Parkinson

By Edgar Nash
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Wellness

The article focuses directly upon an unmet need Parkinson’s Diseases patients and their caregivers have faced, lacking in books relating to this dreaded, incurable disease.

Deep Waters Run Still

By Stephen Geez
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • Grandparenting
  • Long Term Care

Short story about dignity and respect for Alzheimer’s Disease patients.

Breast Cancer – Who Is At Risk and Understanding The Process – Fact Sheet Part I

By National Cancer Institute
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Wellness

Part I explains what breast cancer is and who is at risk.

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