Wed., March 25, 2009 22:20:41 GMT One of the things I’ve seen on Trusera* this past year, that learning tools used to help someone with autism would also be helpful to those trying to recover from a stroke. Today I saw Stimey’s Trusera post “The Right Tool at the Right Time.” I commented to her [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Caregiver’
Tools for Autism Can Help Strokees, Too
Posted in Favorite Products, Trusera, tagged Caregiver, Caregiving, Eldercare, Products, Stroke, Stroke recovery, Stroke therapy, strokes on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Backstory #5: Expanding My Long-Distance Caregiving
Posted in Backstory, tagged Caregiver, Caregiving, Dementia, Eldercare, Long-distance caregiving, Stroke, Stroke-Induced Dementia on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wed. Jan. 21, 2009 21:03:45 GMT My fears finally materialized during one of my weekend trips home, while I routinely reviewed Mom’s check book and canceled checks. In what had always been a textbook example of A+ perfect order, I started seeing confusion. By the summer of 2005, at age 84, Mom’s memory was getting [...]
Backstory #4: Increasing Long-Distance and Local Caregiving
Posted in Backstory, tagged Caregiver, Caregiving, Dementia, Eldercare, Long-distance caregiving, Memory Loss, Stroke, Stroke-Induced Dementia on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fri., Jan. 16, 2009 20:43:26 GMT In 2003, when Mom was 81, I accepted a wonderful promotion and ended up moving even farther away from her – farther north, from Chicagoland to Madison, Wisconsin. My gut and guilt required me to start calling and visiting Mom more frequently. Instead of a minimum of four hours, [...]
Backstory #3: Obtaining Legal Caregiver Rights
Posted in Backstory, tagged Caregiver, Dementia, Eldercare, Healthcare Power of Attorney, Long-distance caregiving, Memory Loss, POA, Power of Attorney, Stroke, Stroke-Induced Dementia on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thurs., Jan. 15, 2009 20:32:53 GMT After that initial scare in 1999, when Mom collapsed, McDonalds called 911 and the ER doc called me, Mom and I visited a local attorney we knew from church. The attorney prepared a General Durable Power of Attorney (POA) document giving me the legal right to make financial decisions [...]
Backstory #2: Easing into Long-Distance Caregiving
Posted in Backstory, tagged Caregiver, Caregiving, Eldercare, Long-distance caregiving, Memory Loss, Stroke, Stroke-Induced Dementia on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wed., Jan. 14, 2009 16:58:47 GMT Over the course of the next few years, after her visit to the ER when the doctors revealed she had at some time experienced a stroke, if not multiple strokes, I called Mom weekly from Chicago. I drove back home to Indianapolis monthly, no matter the weather or how [...]
Backstory #1: Mom’s Initial Stroke Was a Warning
Posted in Backstory, tagged Caregiver, Caregiving, Dimentia, Eldercare, Long-distance caregiving, Memory Loss, Stroke, Stroke-Induced Dementia on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tues., Jan 13, 2009 20:21:03 GMT Preface: If you read about my being Mom’s caregiver, and then about her eventual death in September 2008, you may be interested in our prequel, the back stories to the how and why of my becoming Mom’s caregiver, both long distance, then locally. These are the stories of her [...]
Revisiting the Nursing Home, After Mom’s Death
Posted in Mourning, tagged Ann-itudes (+ Attitudes), Caregiver, Caregiving, Death, Eldercare, Fading Life, Laughter, Mourning, Nursing Homes, Positive Attitude on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, December 05, 2008 18:54:22 GMT It was more than Mom’s nursing home, it was her neighborhood. So, the day before Thanksgiving, I dropped by my late mother’s neighborhood. Often, when a resident dies, the neighborhood mourns not only the loss of the resident, but the loss of her visiting family, as well. That makes [...]
Gifts: Recording Singalongs and Readalongs
Posted in Gift Ideas, tagged Caregiver, Caregiving, Cheap Gifts, Eldercare, Family, Gift Ideas, Gifts, Gifts of Time, Good Vibes, Laughter, Meaningful gifts, Music Therapy, Positive Attitude, Stroke on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 08:05:18 GMT When the nieces and nephews were young, they lived hours away, in Wisconsin and Washington, while I lived in Indiana. Still, I wanted to make sure they had fun memories of me. I wanted to make sure they knew how much I loved them. So, one year I recorded [...]
Gifts: Digitally Recording “I Love You”
Posted in Eldercare, Gift Ideas, tagged Caregiver, Caregiving, Eldercare, Fading Life, Family, Favorite Products, Gift Ideas, Good Vibes, Heirloom-Quality Gifts, I Love You, Memorable Gifts, Preserving Memories, Talking Picture Frame, VoiceQuilt, www.voicequilt.com on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 23:08:58 GMT Finally, just now, I went back to myfamily.com and viewed video snippets I made last year of Mom saying “I love you” to each of her children, including me. It’s kind of hard to see the screen as I type this, because of the tears. Mom took her last [...]
Keeping The Germs At Bay
Posted in Eldercare, tagged Caregiver, Caregiving, Eldercare, Germs, Health, Nursing Home, Nursing Homes, Preventing Illnesses on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, November 16, 2008 22:20:15 Each time I visited Mom at the nursing home, at some point I would open the bottom drawer, pull out the Clorox wipes, and spend several minutes wiping down areas in her room frequently touched by anyone. Don’t get me wrong: The nursing home was a clean one. The cleanest [...]
