Category Archives: Alzheimer’s and other dementias
When without words
How do we converse when without words: maybe with rhythm, rhythms of which we are not aware, but might find ways to notice. :- Doug.
What if Alzheimer’s?
What if Alzheimer’s were simply another culture, another country? :- Doug.
Rhythms in a nursing home
There are rhythms of life in say a nursing home. The rhythms are like languages where people cannot understand one another. There is the long flowing beat of the older, the staccato of the staff. :- Doug.
our confusion over bathing
What if our confusion over bathing were simply the fogginess and dislike we experience on being rudely awakened from a beautiful dream? :- Doug.
larger than ever we were
We begin as two cells—egg and sperm—and consciousness expands to our brand new toes and stomach and heart. Then one day we discover ourselves reversing course. Consciousness shrinks as legs and organs slow. Our spirits come back to the few … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Alzheimer's and other dementias, Eldering
Leave a comment
to ask of us
We’re still living—life has something to offer us and to ask of us. :- Doug.
Use of our minds?
Is short term memory and word retrieval the highest and best use of our minds? Are there places to go beyond words and what we had for breakfast—or even our confusion over bathing? :- Doug.
Using other neural pathways?
There may be deeper neural pathways available to us than those we normally (easily) use for activities like short term memory and word association. Could we train ourselves to use these other connections for our larger purposes? :- Doug.
What is the work?
What is the work people—even people with dementia—are doing in old age? :- Doug.
the further we advance
The further we advance into persons the more activity (conversation) among them we discover. The closer we look the more restless and dynamic the picture. People cannot be separated from their correlations. The more we confine them (such as in … Continue reading
A mystery of Alzheimer’s
There is a mystery of Alzheimer’s, perhaps to be lived into. :- Doug.
Alzheimer’s has Mary
Alzheimer’s has Mary. Don is worried. I’m helping. :- Doug.
Posted in Alzheimer's and other dementias, Caring
Leave a comment
People who love people with Alzheimer’s
People who love people with Alzheimer’s need help. That’s what I do. :- Doug.
Posted in Alzheimer's and other dementias, Caring
Leave a comment
If we could know Alzheimer’s
If we could know Alzheimer’s were in our future we would respond as we respond to life accept, fight, despair, proceed in the face we cannot so far protect people from disease nor predict their response nor what possibilities their … Continue reading
Posted in Alzheimer's and other dementias, Family, Poetry
Leave a comment