by Christy Turner | Feb 10, 2018 | Dementia Care
These Things Are Important, But… Want to know the #1 key to amazingly awesome dementia care? It’s not in this section. But if you care for a person living with dementia, you’ve probably been focusing on (or been urged to focus on) the following list of...
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 | Sep 18, 2016 | "Behaviors", Dementia Care
Ever seen those YouTube videos or memes of people giving their cat a bath? This is the Google search result: Notice a theme? Just to clear up any confusion, cats love bathing more than people living with dementia do. By a lot. Most any care partner who’s ever been the...
by Christy Turner | Jul 22, 2016 | Dementia Care
A friend tagged me in a post to make sure I’d see this: OWNER OF NURSING HOME ACCUSED OF STEALING FROM 57 RESIDENTS TO PAY DEBTS (http://abc30.com/news/owner-of-nursing-home-accused-of-stealing-from-57-residents-to-pay-debts/1437984/). This happened in my home town,...
by Christy Turner | Jul 10, 2016 | Dementia Care
My newsletter each week ends with this: “REMINDER: you are never, ever alone! No matter how isolated you may feel, the truth is that I’m right here on the other side of the screen and I am always rooting for you!” I know from both personal and professional experience...
by Christy Turner | Jun 13, 2016 | "Behaviors", Dementia Care
What do you do when Mom calls to say she’s at (long-deceased) Grandma’s and is wondering where Dad [also gone] is? What’s the communication strategy in that situation? Knowing to approach from the front is great; breaking a task into short, concise instructions is...
