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Let’s look at ways caregivers ask for help. In Caregiving by the Letters and Stress Reduction with a Tropical Twist, we stated what caregivers know as being painfully obvious: Caregiving is stressful. We helped identify the various caregivers’ roles, some mind-boggling stats about caregiving demographics, and provided some resources on how you can get a handle [...]
Memory Joggers now Includes 201 Fun and Engaging Memory Cafe Activities for You! If you’re new to Memory Joggers, they are a growing collection of familiar sayings. As Memory Cafe activities, they are used by many to engage and focus individuals living with early- to mid-stage memory loss. The way they work is simple. You [...]
My Name is Thelma, But I Don’t Know Who I Am By Jan Malone A Dementia Caregiver’s Resource Guide and Workbook Jan Malone’s book, “My Name is Thelma, But I Don’t Know Who I Am” is a Dementia Caregiver’s Resource and Workbook. But it is much more! It is as much of a historical [...]
2020 is here! The New Year is always a time to reflect on the most recent trip around the sun and to look ahead to the next orbit. Today, I plan to do both. (Hint: the 2nd part is a favor I need to ask… I want you to help me set Memory Cafe Directory’s [...]
There is nearly an unlimited number of dementia caregiving books on the market today. How do you determine which ones are right for you? Here is a collection of nine outstanding dementia caregiving books, along with a bit of background on each. They are as valuable as they are varied. Finding the Light in [...]
It’s been a while since the last update, but Memory Joggers Volume 8 is now in the Memory Joggers Library! Visit today to get Volume 8 and all the other FREE MEMORY CAFE ACTIVITIES. This is the latest collection in Memory Joggers Volume 8: Out of the frying pan and into the… fire Open the oyster [...]
“Is music good for individuals living with dementia?” It would be a safe bet to say music is good for all of us. Many of us relate to the featured image of a turntable arm resting on a rotating vinyl platter. Others connect with the latest fancy iPod or one of any number of very common [...]
New! See below to learn more about our new team: Team DementiaMap.com! Something resembling a video game played by regular people like you and me is helping researchers increase the speed at which Alzheimer’s data is analyzed. It the past, you read about Stall Catchers in the Memory Cafe Newsletter (then from KalendarKards.) At that [...]
Volume 5 of Memory Joggers brings some fun additions to the growing library of free cognitive-building exercises. If you haven’t seen the four previous editions, visit the Memory Joggers Library to see them all, and download your free PDF. Here’s what you will find in Memory Joggers Volume 5: Birds of a feather flock… together [...]
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Learn how you can advance the state of Alzheimer's research. Become a Citizen Scientist with "Stall Catchers." Join Team DementiaMap.com to work together.