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 20 weeks 6 days 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 15 weeks 4 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 10 weeks 5 days 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 9 weeks 6 days 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 9 weeks 2 days ago
A Patient with LBD

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 is also retired.

Lucila, my...

Alfredo Roa 02/11/10 3 weeks 6 days ago