Caring for & Living with Dementia: Tips & Resources
Caring for & Living with Dementia: Tips & Resources
It all started when I arranged to meet my mum at Chinatown after her work about 2 years ago. I called her on her mobile phone to confirm the meeting venue when she was walking to the bus-stop near her workplace. After about 1.5 hour, …
And so it happened AGAIN! I was at home and called mum, “Hello mummy, are you at home?” “Yes” came the reply on the other side of the phone line. “I’m coming over to your house right now to pass you some stuff that I …
Caregiving is an important yet at times frustrating, tiring, draining and stressful activity. In August 2017, I wrote about the 4 easy ways for caregivers of persons with dementia to keep their sanity: BLAA, BLAA – Breathe, Laugh, Accept and Adapt. Time flies! 2017 is …
To all my Caregivers out there, you are an important lot of people! Words that I’ve heard from some of you in describing your caregiving journey include: Rewarding Frustrating A journey filled with personal growth Stressful An adventure filled with unknowns and new discoveries Tiring …
There have been people asking me about Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and dementia. Both PD and dementia are progressive disorders. But PD is different from dementia as PD is a disease characterised by movement impairment, whereas dementia is a disease characterised by cognitive impairment. In people …
Beautiful and inspiring principle shared by Minister Mr Chan Chun Sing during a Bloomberg’s interview on 24 April 2020: “Work hard, never be complacent when you’re doing well, when the chips are down, never be discouraged, and focused on the issues at hand.” . Chips …
Covid-19 is not going away anytime soon. Older people are more susceptible to the virus and tend to have more complications when infected. In recent weeks in Singapore, there has been an increasing number of local unlinked cases despite our world-class detective standard contact tracing. …
Recently, one of my relatives just passed on. She was in her 90s. I thought that her daughter, being her primary caregiver, would be devastated so I spoke to her to try to console her. But her response was, “It’s better for her this way. …
Connection and social wellbeing are fundamental to one’s quality of life. I am a big supporter of the above. After the passing of my father, my mum lived with my late-grandparents and became their primary caregiver. Since their passing, she has been complaining about loneliness. …