Growing closer through dementia
In my family, we die at home. Maybe it’s a black thing, a combined distrust of white authority and fear ...
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Tag: faces of caregiving
From shadowing to sundowning: saying a long goodbye to my spouse
I just needed to go to the bathroom. But even those few minutes of privacy were impossible. When I went ...
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My parents were taken away from me. Twice.
Both of my parents died with dementia – my father in 2012, and my mother in 2015. The two people ...
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I have a 6-year-old, an 8-year-old and an 83-year-old.
Since my mom’s diagnosis with dementia six years ago, I find myself often referring to her as my third child. ...
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Hilarity for Charity’s Lauren Miller Rogen: “I am a caregiver for a caregiver”
It’s taken me many years to fully understand what it means to be a caregiver. In the early years of ...
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