This has been driving me crazy since yesterday; I know AD patients often
misplace things in odd places, so I'm hoping against hope someone will have
some ideas for finding it and helping keep Dad from losing it again.
I was out yesterday and when I phoned home my father started ...

new problem for my MIL... she's now having trouble swallowing some of her
pills ... worries them in her  mouth til I finally get fed up with watching
her and trying to encourage her to take another drink, etc.... and let her
spit them out

gentlemen,
i am so sorry to see this situation disintegrate into bitterness.
there comes a point where denial and habitually soft-soaping the situation
reaches some sort of moment of truth and it just no longer works.

I will be checking my mother in to a nursing home within the next 6
weeks.  If I tell her where we are going when we get in the car she of
course wont remember it for 2 minutes.  If I tell her as we drive into
the parking lot, she might panic.  My thought is to not tell her and

Any recommendations for this book?
Can somebody provide a brief synopsis?
tia
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For anyone in the UK, im on a hour show at 8pm, channel 5.
ttfn

I enrolled my mother in an Adult Day Care program near home and today was her
first day. My mother is physically very capable at 77, but the Alzheimer's has
progressed to the point where she is unable to care for herself and is quite a
burden on my 84 year old father, who is the ...

Life is very interesting with a 90 year old father with AD whose kind
and considerate personality is in tact. He just has no idea where in
time and space he is. But he still remembers family. Sometimes I wonder
if he's misdiagnosed. (I know denial) So much I want to ask. Just don't

   I'm a lurker- but love it here. I printed and have now lost the
fabulous list of 101 things to do with a person with AD. It was
excellent! MAybe you just want to send it to me?
Thanks!

Since I started reading here in late August, I have learned a lot.
I managed to find a bunch of books at our local resource library for
Alzheimer's  - and found them to be quite helpful. I especially enjoyed
"The Forgetting," by David Shent. Has anyone else read this one?

yesterday i fell in a parking lot and broke my right upper arm near the
shoulder.   will be lurking but will have to limit typing.
they can't put it in a cast as the break is too high.  i'll be wearing a
sort of a sling till it heals

Well, it's really been quite surprising: moving day has so far gone
without a hitch.
They (her friends), made her a part of the process and she was 100%
"into" it, complete with decorating the new place, setting up some

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     Women who are obese throughout their life are more likely to lose
brain tissue, researchers have found.

My mother who is 88, is in a nursing home and is screaming constantly.
She has both delirium and dementia, maybe vascular dementia.  She is
also in a wheelchair.  They are currently giving her Zyprexa, Depakote
and now also Zoloft to get her to stop screaming.  These were

I just found this list while doing a search on Aricept+Namenda.  My Mum is
93 yr old and failing healthwise, energy-wise, some short term memory loss,
etc. She had a TIA in Jan and then a relatively mild stroke in May about 4
yrs ago and then one drug after another has been added.