Dementia & Holidays
Trump Has Put Social Security At Serious Risk
According to Paul Krugman, be aware that Donald Trump’s economic proposals, if enacted, could drive Social Security into bankruptcy, impoverishing many older Americans—not in the distant future, but within around six years. This would devastate seniors financially and the care management and home care industry.
Read MoreWhat Good Life to The Very End Can a Care Manager Bring ?
A care manager can bring joy in the terminal phase of dying and give a good life to the very end. Here is a wonderful example .The decision was made that he would die at his son’s home with 24 care and his ongoing care manager Mary Brennan.
Read MoreReminiscence on Memorial Day- Serve it to Elders Along With Hamburgers
What Is Reminiscence?-it is sparked by the senses, making buried memories flow into our brains. Holidays like Memorial Day are a perfect time to have their older family members share stories.
Read MoreWhat Happens When High Priestess of the Holidays Falls off her Throne?
Holidays have traditionally been a woman’s job. Mothers are the high priestess of the ritual- like Queen Elizabeth without servants. But what happens when the aging Mom falls off the throne?
Read MoreHow Can Someone with Dementia Have a Better Quality of Life on a Holiday ?
During the ritual of dying easter eggs, finding easter baskets on, dressing up for the local Easter Parade, eating ritual foods at Easter dinner or at Easter Brunch, the older person can actually participate or watch and these holiday rituals can prompt stories from their long-term memory.
Read MoreDysfunctional Family Holiday Mayhem – Mom Can’t 4 Manage the Ritual any Longer
There are murky roles for everyone in the dysfunctional family with the chief role of the parent characterized by a lack of leadership of the family and ability to nature the children. Mom rarely became the high priestess on Hanukkah or Christmas, the family members generally do not believe the parent is there for them and can be depended upon. The dysfunctional family is colored by bloody strained relationships and unresolved conflicts and drunken ruined Christmas memories
Read MoreCan Blue Blue Christmas and Hanukkah Come From Dementia ?
Why do so many desperate adult children get care managers on the phone and howl about Mom or Dad? There are a million bad reasons,but the physical basis for all of this misery in an elder is often a loss of executive function and IADL’s and ADL’s
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