Category Archives: Alzheimer’s and other dementias
a natural—and right—response?
What if dementia were not something going wrong in a person’s life, but a natural—and right—response to something in that life—like sweat in response to heat? What if the person were doing exactly what were necessary this moment physically, mentally, … Continue reading
Mind and memory
Mind and memory spirit personality and being different things all :- Doug.
This is not demented
We are not demented to be happier, more in touch with the years and generations, and more reflective than in a younger age. Losing one’s mind might be a good thing; having our brain tangled is a whole other matter! … Continue reading
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Elders greet death
Elders greet death Some greet loss of mind As additional privilege In peeling away ego, gain In dropping mind, divinity :- Doug.
Round the clock goes
Round the clock goes first toward word maturity then back again toward images and touch becoming master of one’s soul boat then first mate :- Doug.
What if…there really was a disconnecting disease?
What if…there really was a disconnecting disease? It affected us? We turned away from looking at it? Were simply unaware of it? What if…? :- Doug.
waves in the same pool
When we treat one person and not ourselves and that person as part of the fabric, we are pulling apart from the person, we are ripping the fabric, we are working against helping the person. If memory and thinking and … Continue reading
disconnecting disease
Maybe it is disconnecting disease, for we are actively disconnecting ourselves from one another, from life. :- Doug.
The disconnected disease
The disconnected disease :- Doug.
suffering under the disconnected disease
We in our culture are suffering under the disconnected disease. We do not see—indeed try to go the opposite direction—that all life is intertwined, one. So we try to treat one person’s dementia or other pathology separately from everyone he … Continue reading
Maybe it’s metaphor
Maybe it’s a metaphor, maybe it’s actually physical, maybe it’s a reality greater. :- Doug.
part of the disease
That would make the doctors, hospitals, and researchers part of the disease. Last century the physicists found themselves part of what they were studying. :- Doug.
Memory exists between people
It is possible, given that socialization seems to protect memory, that memory exists between people: the more it is activated between, the more each holographic member remembers. The same seems true of thinking. :- Doug.
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Reversing Alzheimer’s
Here is a report of a small study showing personalized programs have reversed the effects of Alzheimer’s: http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/06/16/Personalized-treatment-may-reverse-Alzheimers-memory-loss/6921466083695/ “[T]he researchers designed a personalized 36-point program involving changes to diet, brain stimulation, exercise, optimization of sleep, specific pharmaceuticals and vitamins and … Continue reading
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Bring me toys
Bring me toys if I get to experience dementia. As I progress backwards through my decades, bring me things to occupy my happy moments: travel brochures when I am again in my 50s, tax return forms and calculators when I … Continue reading
Demented lives matter
Demented lives matter The voices which have no sense Need hearing by us, somehow If we embrace these Can we live in peace? :- Doug.