by Christy Turner | Apr 10, 2017 | Care Partners
Ever had a really bad cold? The kind that makes it impossible to sleep at night unless you’ve downed a bottle of NyQuil and are sitting upright? The kind that makes you swear you’ll never, ever again take your health for granted, if only you can breathe through your...
by Christy Turner | Apr 9, 2017 | Care Partners
Cara Marcum is the Program Director at Piatt County Services for Seniors in rural Illinois. She sent me an email last week that started out like this: “Christy, For your book, might I suggest….” Obviously, I was hooked. I called Cara to discuss her...
by Christy Turner | Apr 9, 2017 | Care Partners, Dementia Care
UK reader “Jemima” wrote me this week with a fairly common problem. Once we sorted that, she wrote back with some clever solutions and talked herself through another fairly common problem. We loop you in below. From Jemima: My mum has recently...
by Christy Turner | Nov 13, 2016 | Care Partners
Updated August 20, 2017 This post originally appeared November 13, 2016, with the following note. This feels like a good time to run it again, with a few additions. I’d previously said that this week would be about how to put the kibosh on holiday meltdowns...
by Christy Turner | Nov 6, 2016 | Care Partners
In working with 1,100 people living with dementia, I’ve found working with them is the easy part! It’s their families who are much more challenging…especially when it comes to managing family conflict in dementia. Typically, the whole family is pulling together...
by Christy Turner | Oct 30, 2016 | Care Partners
Updated 9/14/17 Embarrassment. We’ve all been there, and we all strive to never go there again. It’s feeling ashamed, bewildered, confounded, confused, crushed, discombobulated, and disconcerted. Not to mention humiliated, in a tizzy, mortified, rattled, taken...
