Caregiver Personal Pages

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All About Rich

My dad Rich was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment in 2002 and then got a new diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in 2005. His first problems were with his memory, which he actually noticed before anyone else and pointed out to my mom - then they went to see their family doctor. He has...

mrs_mbc 09/09/09 46 weeks 1 day ago
LIVING IN THE MOMENT

We realized about four years ago that grandma was starting to repeat things and was getting a little more forgetful but we just chalked it up to old age. A short time later we noticed she had stopped leaving the house and was not even doing things like going to the grocery store or the beauty...

tatiana01 11/21/09 40 weeks 6 days ago
Hiking a New Trail

My husband, Abe, was diagnosed about 3 years ago with atypical dementia.  He is on medcation (Aricept) and his deterioration has been show.  He has had to stop driving, and he relies on me more and more for day to day decisions and help remembering where things are what we are doing,...

Bethie 12/25/09 36 weeks 14 hours ago
Dora's Journey

  Dora's Journey began in 2000. Working in the field of geriatrics as a social worker, I had been exposed to men and women  in my intership &  fieldwork in college. The patients  were in different stages of Dementia and or  Alzheimer's. Everything a student learns in...

dalia 12/31/09 35 weeks 1 day ago
Haas Family

I am the youngest of 5 children and recently (almost 2 years) moved back into my childhood home to assist my Mother with taking care of my Father who has been diagnosed with LBD.

 

haasy 01/03/10 34 weeks 5 days ago
A Patient with hallucinations at early stages of Alkheimer

My name is Alfredo Roa. I am 72. I obtained a Ph.D. degree in economics from Michigan State University. I worked as university professor and I am actually retired. Lucila has an undergraduate degree in economics from Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia She worked for over 20 years at Gillette...

Alfredo Roa 02/11/10 15 weeks 3 days ago
Caregiving-Journey

Hi!  I’m Anita G. Houser, happily Married, Mother of two wonderful boys, 14 and 11, caregiver to my mother, Entrepreneur and Musician.


My mother Mildred has been living with us since November of 2008 after she was...

anitaghouser 03/23/10 15 weeks 2 days ago
North Whidbey Caregivers' Cove

North Whidbey Caregivers' Cove is a private, non-profit family caregiver resource center with adult day respite care.  We provide program participants with a social, therapeutic activity program while their caregivers are taking a much needed break from the stressors of giving 24 hour care...

Caregivers Cove 04/30/10 18 weeks 4 hours ago
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twm95130 05/04/10 17 weeks 3 days ago
Providing care for Betty

My dad passed away in 1998.  I promised to care for my mom, Betty.  She and my dad were great parents and it is a priviledge to care for my mom now.  She was diagnosed with Dementia, Alzheimers around 2006.  7 years after my dad died, she and her high school sweetheart,...

DIana 06/24/10 10 weeks 23 hours ago