Category Archives: Alzheimer’s and other dementias
far fewer debilitated
Today I feel on the cusp of something new. We do not fear age so much as society’s fearful picture of age. And that perhaps stems from too little factual knowledge of what aging comprises. I suspect that far fewer … Continue reading
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Where words do not avail
Maybe those with failing words are traveling ever deeper into realms where words do not avail :- Doug.
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Only a closed door?
What theme, better, what questions? Who is a grandchild that we should do something for her or him? What is the positive growth in aging? What else is dementia about and can we know? Do we only see dementia as … Continue reading
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Thinking is trouble
Let’s speak kindly about people for whom thinking is troublesome. :- Doug.
mouths demented
If babies can teach us, then so too demented elders. :- Doug.
Hope for dementia?
How might you look forward to an elderhood that could include your own dementia? :- Doug.
Frail strength?
What can we learn from the most forgetful of us all? What is the lasting strength of the frailest of us all? :- Doug.
Dotage decrepancy
Dotage, decrepancy, and dementia are not meant for most :- Doug.
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End of a human’s value?
Must mental incompetence or physical dependence be the end of a human’s value? :- Doug.
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Alzeimer’s the long death
Alzheimer’s is sometimes called the long death. Yet we all are in a long death: birth is a terminal condition. We also journey long to come to live out our free and immortal spirit, to grow ourselves openly and larger, … Continue reading
Sometimes need dementia?
Maybe people sometimes need dementia? :- Doug.
Changes memory
As much as the other way around the course of events changes memory :- Doug.
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