Home Exercises to Slow Dementia By Laura Gifford Providence Place Senior Living If your loved one has received a dementia diagnosis, you may be wondering what you can do to slow down the progression of the disease. There are a number of controllable factors that researchers believe reduce dementia development: Regular exercise Healthy diet Exercising [...]

Spotlight on Trinity Episcopal Church Memory Cafe Staunton, Virginia The Spotlight section is a great place to learn creative strategies used in various Memory Cafes. By sharing what works (or doesn’t) with others, everyone learns new techniques. The Memory Cafe at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Staunton, Virginia is about as creative as they come! [...]

Dementia-Mama-Drama: A Daily Dose of Dementia with Mama Drama By Vincent Zappacosta A collection of our “Daily Doses” of dementia. “Dementia-Mama-Drama” chronicles our thirteen year journey as caregivers for Mama. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always heartfelt with short chapters sprinkled with photos. Mama wanted her story told and that’s how “Dementia-Mama-Drama” started. In the [...]

Mirrors of the Camino Parallel accounts of traveling the Camino de Santiago, as voiced by pilgrims from both the Middle Ages and the 21st century. By Randy Bateman Aging is a Marathon – Not a Sprint Teens and 20s Growing old is unimaginable when we are in school, striving to understand who we are and [...]

Memory Cafe Brazil is off to a successful start amid a very difficult period of time. São Paulo is the home of what is believed to be the first Memory Cafe in Brazil. That’s impressive all my itself. For that accomplishment alone, we offer a hearty congratulations to Cláudia Lopes and Jessyka Bram! Being the [...]

Love Doesn’t Care If You Forget Lessons of Love from Alzheimer’s and Dementia By Brianne Grebil Learned, but not Taught The most valuable things that I’ve learned about life, I learned from my mother. But I learned them long after she was able to teach. My mother was diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer’s five years [...]

Brighten Your Day With Carol and Kay! Videos can be wonderful therapy for times that are not-so-wonderful these days. The ones below provide COVID-19 & Alzheimer’s advice, and are no exception. These two make a great team, bringing all of us joy, laughter, strength, and a dose of reality. Time very well spent – time [...]

Things Unsaid By Diana Y. Paul Heads Up! Get ready for a long relationship between you and your aging parents. Parents are expected to take care of their children, but most parents never intend to become a burden on them. Yet illness or infirmity may make it impossible to continue to care for themselves. Often [...]