As a caregiver to someone with dementia…
I looked for patterns all the time in her dementia. I thought of them as guides to help me deal with the manifestations of the illness. I believed this strategy was the way to help both my mother and myself. Only when I reached out to others for support did I realize how isolating my strategy had become.
Dementia &
Alzheimers
Caregiving
Journey &
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Most recent blog posts
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Dementia and the Shawshank Redemption
For those who prefer to listen to this blog post: When you find strength to tell someone you have dementia, the response you sometimes hear is, “Oh, you just forget things, right?” I don’t fault them because that’s usually what people know. That’s what they see in syndicated media, on the local news, […]
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Ask me how I am today. Anonymous
For those who prefer to listen to this story: I am a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter and a sister. I should say my life has been blessed, but find that difficult to say these days. Early in my marriage, I lost my father to a sudden death, but to this […]
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Happy Healthy Caregiver (Podcast)
Listen to “Lisa B Capp – Caregiver Spotlight (Ep. #72)” on Spreaker.
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Where do we go from here?
On the horizon of Alzheimer’s and dementia Research Today 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. If we look at dementia from a global perspective, we see a community larger than the population of Spain –more than 50 million people! In 1906, Dr. Alois […]
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This is us. Holiday traditions
Each holiday I reminisce about the holidays that came before. I don’t imagine I’m unusual in this way, I guess many people may do the same. It’s the patterns that are most interesting to me, the symmetry and asymmetry of our traditional family gathering. The good years, the transitions and the challenging years. This year […]
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“And while I’m still able,” Sandra Day O’Connor
Our heroes succumb. It is the circle of life, regrettably. I am a woman of middle age. I occupy that space at the tail end of the baby-boomer generation. My career was spent in high tech and I stood witness to the struggles women faced for recognition, acknowledgement, equal opportunity and equal pay for the […]
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At least I don’t have Alzheimer’s…
I may be living in the desert southwest now, but an unusually rainy October day transports me back to thoughts of caregiving in the northeast with my mom. Those cold autumn days when although the changing leaves were breathtaking and brilliant, the falling rain foretold of coming cold and a winter despair that seems to […]
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Life Lessons from Dementia Caregiving
Promises made. Promises broken. In 1965 I was 9 years old when my grandfather was moved to a nursing home. The massive wooden door of the old mansion-turned-institutional care facility always opened with a soiled sense of despair. While visiting her father over the years, my mother would softly sob: “Promise never to put me […]
