Dementia

There are roughly 37 million people over age 65 living in America today. The growing number of seniors of this age is due to advances in medical care, which have increased life expectancies. Many seniors live alone in homes or apartments. This poses a great risk to seniors-one which can be remedied by knowing your limitations and capabilities. According to experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), falls are one of the leading causes of injury and death among the elderly today.

Our nation's medical community, while striving daily to attain answers and more knowledge, is still at a loss concerning many aspects of Alzheimer's disease.  Unfortunately,  some people will progress more rapidly through the mild, moderate and severe stages of the disease and there is no tool that will enable a caregiver to predict the decline their loved one will experience. 

Dementia is defined as "the cognitive and intellectual deterioration: the usually progressive deterioration of intellectual functions such as memory that can occur while other brain functions such as those controlling movement and the senses are retained" (Encarta ® World English Dictionary).  In other words, one may be able complete their activiities of daily living such as exercising, eating and drinking, etc.  However, one suffereing from dementia starts to lose his memory and nothing can be done to prevent it.  Amazingly, one with dementia still retains long-term memory a

Once a caregiver's aging loved one no longer is able to attend funtions, church, or simply go out for a romatic dinner,  the relationship between the two becomes stagnant, sometimes even boring.  The love is there and has always been true, but seems as if it is not growing as it always has in the past.  When you cannot attain new experiences and meet other couples together, the relationship seems stale.  However, reminiscence is the perfect answer to maintaining a loving bond with your aging spouse.   You both can recall the times you spent toget

Reminiscence is defined by Encarta World English Dictionary as, "The recollection of past experiences or events in speech or writing, or the act of recalling the past".  Many times in our lives, we find ourselves remembering a fun time we experienced with another loved one.  Other memories are hard to bear and we would rather forget them.  But memories are there to stay as once our brain processes the moments, they are always locked into our memory.