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Spousal caregiving as a husband
Caring for a spouse with dementia is an emotionally and physically exhausting journey. Men especially often find themselves unprepared for the role of a caregiver. Many of them, particularly from older generations, may not have traditionally taken on a caregiving role in their marriage, making the transition even more overwhelming. The shift from being a Read More
Home care isn’t perfect
Waiting For A Spot in Long Term care
Hello my friends! The last blog update was about the recommendation for long-term care placement for Heather. Not a whole lot has changed since then except that it’s been confirmed that she’s been placed on a priority list. What this means is that instead of being on a potential three-year-long waiting list, the recommendation to Read More
A formal recommendation for Long Term Care
Things are rolling along… here’s a video about our assessment by the geriatrics clinic, and the followup formal recommendation for urgent placement in Long Term Care. As hard and painful as it is to get my head around the notion that soon I will be helping Heather out of her home for the last time Read More
Dealing with the emotional rollercoaster of the Long Term Care placement decision
Whatever happens, stay alive. Don’t die before you’re dead. Don’t lose yourself, don’t lose hope, don’t lose direction. Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin. Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design. Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive also outside, Read More
My YouTube channel!
In case you didn’t know, I have a very active YouTube channel… In the three month period after I started posting videos about our dementia journey my subscriber count grew from 300 to over 10,000 with thousands of amazing comments and wonderful interactions with people from around the world. It really took me by surprise. Read More
November 7th update – Supports and Stability
Hello everybody who follows or may have found this blog. As you probably know, I’m quite active on YouTube and I probably post more updates there than anywhere else. The format appeals to me with videos and freedom to just chat, but I really should share those videos here as well because not everybody does Read More
Heather’s day program
Check out this video to learn a little more about the day program that Heather attends at Northwood here in Halifax.
Looking toward the future and the YANA concept
A Difficult Milestone and a New Realization It’s only been two weeks since my last update, but as I’ve been telling Hetty, and others, it feels like we hit a new milestone every week. And by milestone, I don’t mean just a small change—these are significant shifts that alter how we care for Heather and Read More
