Caring for & Living with Dementia: Tips & Resources
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 …
I wrote about Fall Prevention 101 in Jan 2018. A short recap on the key points in that article: We lose our muscle masses as we age Through strength-training, muscles can be strengthened and toned to slow down, prevent, and may even reverse the loss. …
I didn’t expect much when I chose to watch this in-flight movie – Head Full of Honey. The reason for my choice was simple: it’s about the life of a person living with Alzheimer’s Disease played by Nick Nolte. I was truly impressed by the …
Humans are creatures of habits. This remains true even with the diagnosis of dementia. . Persons living with early-stage dementia are usually still reasonably independent with varying degree of memory lapses and losses. As dementia sets in, most individuals will still be going about with …