A tearful, early Thanksgiving with John
John is in hospice, but stable. He has lost about 40 pounds in the last 12 months which is the most troubling thing right now as he eats everything put in front of him,...
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National Caregivers Month: Our favorite legal and financial tips
Financial and legal planning are an important first step in caregiving. Proper preparation in these aspects will save you from stressful situations in the future. But how to get started? Here two key first...
National Caregivers Month: Our favorite tips for bathing
Caring for another person’s hygiene can be overwhelming – especially when they don’t like the idea, themselves! This next chapter in our caregiver tips focuses on bathing – which is often the subject of...
National Caregivers Month: Our top caregiver tips
November is National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month and National Caregivers Month! We’ll be posting a series of weekly blogs dedicated to supporting the work of caregivers this month. Caregivers take on no small task, and...
Voting and Alzheimer’s disease
The season to vote is here again! November 4 has been designated as the day we fulfill our rights as citizens of the United States and cast our voices to the vote. But what...
A poem for Dad: The thief
My father Thomas William Maher worked on his family’s share cropping farm before joining the Air Force and serving as a gunner on a B-29 in the Korean War. This earned him a military scholarship and...
2014 World Alzheimer’s Report
Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) is a worldwide organization – of which the Alzheimer’s Association is a founding member – that supports the future of all peoples through research of dementia diseases. On September 17...
In Memory: Daniel Narayan
In 2013, Sushma shared photos of her caregiving experience with her dad Daniel, who was living with Alzheimer’s disease. At the time, Sushma had been living in Antioch, working full time in Walnut Creek, and...
