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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s and Mother&#8217;s Day, Remember Mom the Way She Used to Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 01:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a few days, Mother&#8217;s Day will roll around again, and if your mother has Alzheimer&#8217;s, you&#8217;re probably dreading the festivities. You don&#8217;t know whether to ignore it or pretend everything&#8217;s all right. Your heart feels like a concrete block. Heavy and vacant. You want to honor your mother, but the mother you once knew [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=400&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Explain Alzheimer&#8217;s to Your Children and Grandchildren</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Grandpa has Alzheimer&#8217;s&#8221; isn&#8217;t what you want to have to tell a child, but 5 million Americans suffer from this disease and the best thing you can do as a parent&#8211;is to talk. How to explain Alzheimer&#8217;s to your children and grandchildren isn&#8217;t as big or scary as it sounds. By having a conversation and explaining clearly and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=386&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Vascular Dementia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lady raised her hand at a caregiver workshop and said that her husband was recently diagnosed with vascular dementia. She wondered how that was different from Alzheimer&#8217;s. Dementia is the big umbrella name for diseases that are neurological and effect our memory and other cognitive abilities. Alzheimer&#8217;s is the largest sub-category of dementia followed second [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=392&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protect Your Alzheimer&#8217;s Loved One from Wandering: 5 Tips to Keep Them Safe&#8211;and Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom was determined to call a taxi and &#8220;go home.&#8221;  Problem was, we moved 2 states away! She had Alzheimer&#8217;s and I couldn&#8217;t convince her that this was her new home. Every time I turned around, she was trying to &#8220;escape.&#8221; I called my little Houdini. Once, I found her in the bushes outside the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=389&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Safe to Leave a Person With Alzheimer&#8217;s Alone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caroldodell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it safe to leave a person with Alzheimer&#8217;s alone? What if you have to work, have to go to the doctor&#8217;s or just  need to take a walk.  Is it safe to step out for a  few minutes? Few hours? All day? Caregivers want to know. They have jobs, need to take care of their personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=384&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Caregiving: Where Family Caregiving Is Sometimes Expected</title>
		<link>http://brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/cultural-caregiving-where-family-caregiving-is-expected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Different cultures perceive family caregiving in different ways. For some, being a female means you will be expected to care for your elders. For others, it&#8217;s a family affair&#8211;everyone pitches in, but it stays primarily in the family. This is admirable&#8211;but many progressive families find that this model no longer suits their lives&#8211;or needs. It&#8217;s not that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=381&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Single and Caregiving: Protect Your Finanicial Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caroldodell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Divorced, widowed never married, a 20 or 30 or 50 something caregiver&#8230;being single and caregiving poses a few unique problems. For one thing, it&#8217;s all up to you and this sense of responsibility and isolation can really get to you. Your family members might expect you to be the one to sign up for the job&#8211;after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=377&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Tell People You Have Alzheimer&#8217;s?</title>
		<link>http://brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/how-do-you-tell-people-you-have-alzheimers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You get the diagnosis&#8211;Alzheimer&#8217;s or some other form of dementia. You and your spouse are reeling. You know you&#8217;ve been forgetful, off your game, confused&#8230;but you never thought&#8230;this.  It&#8217;s been weeks and you can hardly say the word out loud. You know that you&#8217;ll have to tell your adult children, perhaps a few close people, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=374&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Aloud, A Comforting and Connecting Caregiver&#8217;s Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caroldodell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poems, nursery rhymes, hymns,  patriotic songs, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, the Torah, Shakespeare, James Patterson or Robert Ludlow&#8217;s adventure books, Agatha Christie and W.B. Yeats&#8230;the list could go on and on. Babies to centenarians enjoy the lyrical sound of a voice reading aloud. Alzheimer&#8217;s studies show the brain light up when a poem is recited. It taps into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=372&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do People with Alzheimer&#8217;s Mumble, Babble or Moan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caroldodell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I visit my grandfather in a care home every other week, but now that he&#8217;s been transferred to the memory disorder unit, I hesitate about bringing my kids. Other patients there mumble, babble or moan, and I feel it would upset my children (ages 8, 10, 14). My grandfather doesn&#8217;t do this, but maybe he&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainfitnesscaregiver.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7301226&amp;post=370&amp;subd=brainfitnesscaregiver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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