Diseases – Illnesses – Conditions – Page 9

Alzheimer’s: Dealing With Repetitive Behavior – How To Reassure Them While Preserving Your Equilibrium

Here are some stratagies to help deal with repetitive behavior in Alzheimer’s patients.

The Caregiver’s Fence

Have you ever felt like you were straddling a fence? This is one caregivers struggle between reality and fantasy when dealing with the pending death of a loved one.

Just One Woman’s Story: My Story

By Jillian Leslie

Learn from the personal experience of one womans story of living with a tumor on her uterus.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part l

By National Cancer Institute

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A diagnosis of cancer is a powerful stimulis against procrastinating on kindly or beautiful things and a reminder that many of the material things aren’t that urgent.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part ll

By National Cancer Institute

The period following a cancer diagnosis is a difficult time of adjustment for family members. Each has to deal with individual feelings, while trying to be sensitive to those of the person with cancer.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part lll

By National Cancer Institute

Fear of being thought ignorant or pushy has kept many people from asking their doctors about alternative treatments for cancer.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part lV

By National Cancer Institute

Time along with demonstrations of love, understanding and affection by your partner and family should help you work through your feelings about your changed body image.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part V

By National Cancer Institute

Some cancer patients live alone and some feel they have no one to live for. This increases loneliness and can make the will to live seem a bitter irony.

Types of Strokes

By National Stroke Association

The world of patients who had a stroke is completely different from ours. Discussion of types of strokes and consequences of those strokes.

Early Stages – Alzheimer’s Disease

By Beth Witrogen McLeod

People in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease are healthy, high functioning and able to express feelings, concerns and experiences. They may have mild memory loss and some confusion.

Coping With Grief

By Dorothy Womack

I address this article to those of you who are the remaining spouse, having placed your loved one into a care facility. This is a personal story discussing and affirming the feelings experienced by caregivers of Alzheimers patients.

Clinical Trials for Medications, Procedures and More

By Gail Mitchell

Providing information on volunteering and participating in clinical trial research for medications, therapies, and treatments.