Should You Stop Working? Guidance for People Living with Early-Stage Dementia by Marie Marley

May 6, 2018

Should You Stop Working? Guidance for People Living with Early-Stage Dementia by Marie Marley

Dementia Advocacy

Note: This article is directed toward people living with early-stage dementia. If you are a care partner, please pass it along to your loved one after you read it. Jeff Borghoff had been working as a Sr. Technical Architect for eight years. His job included, among other duties, meeting with clients. When he was 50 years old, he began to notice memory and concentration changes in himself. Jeff’s symptoms continued worsening, and by age 51 he was no longer […]

Did Winnie-The-Pooh have Dementia by Laurie Scherrer. With Appreciation to Laurie for allowing DAA to post her blog.

April 5, 2018

Did Winnie-The-Pooh have Dementia by Laurie Scherrer. With Appreciation to Laurie for allowing DAA to post her blog.

Living with Dementia from the Experts (PWDs)

It recently occurred to me that A.A. Milne had an understanding of dementia when he created Winnie-The Pooh. Throughout the exciting stories of The Hundred Acre Woods this “chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluffy” often mentions his forgetfulness, cognitive impairments and not being able to say what he wants to get across. Although some phrases used in 1929 to describe dementia (such as “a bear of very little brain”) may seem unacceptable today, the stories often describe […]

Do People With Dementia Have the Right to Vote?

December 4, 2017

Do People With Dementia Have the Right to Vote?

Dementia Advocacy

Mary L. Radnofsky, Ph.D. I was recently asked about the voting rights of people with dementia in America, especially when entering memory care. It’s an important issue to those of us with a diagnosis. But this question also addresses our fundamental identity as human beings, for we have a voice that should be heard not only in the governance of our country, but in our personal autonomy. The right to vote is protected by the US Constitution for American citizens. […]

What Happens When We See Dementia as a Disability?

August 1, 2017

What Happens When We See Dementia as a Disability?

Dementia Advocacy

DAA thanks Kirsten Jacobs, associate director of dementia and wellness at LeadingAge, for allowing us to re-post her July 14, 2017 article, in which she imagines how our attitudes and actions might change if we looked at dementia as a disability, not an illness. Pam Montana and Chris Hannafan recently invited me to view dementia through an intriguing lens. In early June, the two appeared on my television screen during an installment of the PBS “Brief but Spectacular” series, which periodically asks interesting […]

Six Lessons I Learned at the Dementia Action Alliance Conference

Optimizing Well-Being

With our sincerest appreciation to Juliet for allowing DAA to re-post her June 30th blog. Juliet Holt Klinger June 30, 2017 I have just returned from the first Dementia Action Alliance Conference: Re-Imagine Life with Dementia in Atlanta and I feel strongly compelled to share my experience. Frankly, I can’t think of a better way to wrap up Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. The Dementia Action Alliance is an organization that was formed to give a voice to those living with dementia and […]

June 4, 2017

Meaningful Connections

Care Partnering

by Nancy L. Kriseman, LCSW, Geriatric Consulting Services As an eldercare Clinical Social Worker, I have worked with individuals who are living with dementia and those caring for them for over 35 years. Midway through my career, my mother was diagnosed with probable Alzheimer’s at age 71. My mother lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 17 years, she died at 87 years old. Throughout this journey, I wanted to find ways to stay positively connected to her. As mom’s dementia progressed, […]

Discovering the Essence of My Father: A Care Partner’s Perspective

May 11, 2017

Discovering the Essence of My Father: A Care Partner’s Perspective

Care Partnering

During the last few years of my father’s life, I had an incredible opportunity to journey back in time with him to discover the essence of his personhood. As his journey with Alzheimer’s peeled away the carefully crafted layers of his life history, I learned to pay attention to what was unfolding. Our visits together became a journey back through time, one that offered me the precious opportunity to better view the unencumbered essence around which my Dad’s life had […]

Author: Karen Love

Should You Stop Working? Guidance for People Living with Early-Stage Dementia by Marie Marley

Did Winnie-The-Pooh have Dementia by Laurie Scherrer. With Appreciation to Laurie for allowing DAA to post her blog.

Do People With Dementia Have the Right to Vote?

What Happens When We See Dementia as a Disability?

Six Lessons I Learned at the Dementia Action Alliance Conference

Meaningful Connections

Discovering the Essence of My Father: A Care Partner’s Perspective