Set with Mom last Sunday from 10 to 4,Tuesday from 7:15 to 4 and
Thursday, yesterday,from 8:30 to 4. Mom was wide awake yesterday and
only slept for maybe 30 minutes while I was there. Very agitated during
the middle of the day for nearly two hours. Better after they gave here

Have 3 of my grandkids this weekend.What a chore.I am getting too old
for this.Especially with my mom also.But we were able to spend some time
outside.Tired them all out and in bed by 7:30.And I am hitting the hay
myself soon for i know it will be an early morning.Hope you all have ...

He's sleeping, but it is a good pic.
http://tinypic.com/vfiouv.jpg

I spoke with my SIL tonight.  She told me that my brother had been
talking to Mom about various housing options, and she had mentioned that
she'd asked her friend Mavis to keep an eye open for apartments in her
old town, the one she moved out of 18 months ago.  My brother had ...

I'm new here, and I've come hoping to get input from those further along
in this process than I.  Here's the dilemma:
My mom is in the early-middle stages of Alzheimer's -- still knows who
we all are, still can tell you who the President is, can still keep her

My mother died four years ago this month.  I saw her for the last time in
this life about 2 weeks before she died.  She was fully aware that her time
was ending, discussed it with me and one of my sisters who was also with us
that afternoon.  I sat with tears streaming down my face ...

Jeremy Laurance, " Mediterranean diet shown to cut risk of Alzheimer's
by 40%", Independent, April 18, 2006,
Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article358352.ece
One of the largest studies of the impact of food and drink on mental

Hello everyone. I just wanted to let you know that I am new here, and to
make myself known. No, I do not have alzheimers, but my grandmother did, and
I have worked with many alzheimers patients over the years in my career as
an attorney.

Hi all, my father is driving me crazy tonight he thinks the tree coat rack
is stealing his money and he not letting it go no matter how money times I
have explained what it is.I even told him I would move it and that was not
good enough. He wants to leave the house so he will be ...

What are the steps that one could take to deal with the need for some
kind of determination that an elder should have some kind of
intervention ?
If the person I am caring for all of a sudden does not want anyone

In the past few days, I've seen an ad a couple of times for some disease
that is shown as a shuffle step by an older gentleman... he says in the
ad that everyone was beginning to think that he had Alzheimers, but this
med helped aleviate his symptoms. The disease had a 3-letter ...

Here is a news flash. Mom does not know me any more, but she remains in pretty good health. I am probably going to go back to work. I applied for a faculty position at the local nursing school. So that will either go, or not. If not I will look for something else. Anyway, I am ...

Does anyone have a loved one in one of these trials? Just wondering if
anyone has seen any improvements. I have my mom in one, but I don't
believe she is getting the real drug, and haven't seen any difference.

Mom got to go to the nursing home for rehab yesterday evening. Before
that they had to give her two shots at the hospital too get her calmed
down some. One thing that agitated her was that they had to tie a big
piece of foam on her legs to keep her from crossing them. Doc said if

I just had one by a live-in caretaker I hired to look after my father.
I had thought you needed a business to have to have WC insurance. For
those who have a live-in caretaker be advised that if your caretaker is
injured in your house you can be responsible for huge penalties of