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Comment on Following Aynsley by Aynsley Moorhouse

Aynsley Moorhouse — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:44:56 +0000

Anne – thank you so much for your support and shout out! It was such a pleasure to meet you and to hear your presentation. I look forward to seeing you again soon. All best! Aynsley

Comment on Seeing the Possibilities by C. Bouzide

C. Bouzide — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:03:14 +0000

A wonderful article and a heartfelt statement about memory loss. During my training just this week I said “As long as there is a pulse there is a spirit.” So many heads nodded it was overwhelming.

Thanks for this article link. Yes. I think the drum is surely beating. Amen.

Comment on Registration is Open! Learn to Create Change Through Creative Engagement by Bruce Devereux

Bruce Devereux — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:38:07 +0000

I’m very excited to have had the opportunity to sign up today with a co-worker. See you in June!

Comment on ABOUT by tomi bar-zeev

tomi bar-zeev — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:44:02 +0000

i am an ot working in israel with many different patients suffering from
all sorts of dementia. i use in my work many models of approach with
the people. i found the snozlen now as one of the successful modelities for the last stages of the illness. your work sounds wonderful. how can i purchase or receive a copy of your book?

Comment on Ventrioloquism by Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:26:25 +0000

Hello, and A Men. AARP is as an organization still holding fast to last century attitudes and language. They too have failed to responsibiy take an active leadership role in the issues associated with the disabilities of dementia, especially in older folks.

They too have bought into the National Alzheimer’s Associations attempts to redefine and relabel the public health care crisis created by dementia as an Alzheimer’s Disease crisis that can be solved by spending more money to find a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease.

All the National organizations that I know of still see us as patients, as fading away human beings, as sufferers. Those who have the connections and resocurces to change the Nation’s understanding of folks living with the disabilities of dementia each and all seem to have their own list of priorities, and each and of them do not seem to have improving the quality of life of those with the symptoms of dementia, leading a National effort to undue the harm the stigmas associated with dementia impose on caregivers and their loved one.

Richard

Comment on Aging Together by Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:03:17 +0000

Hello, I agree with your assessment. Thinkers like this need to be on the Board of the National Alzheimer’s Association.
Richard

Comment on Greetings from Maastricht by Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:28:40 +0000

Hello, what I see missing in many, many psychosocial interventions, except of course your mighty, broad, deep lasting Penelope Project is follow up and integration into some humanizing dementia care plan for each and every person participating in the fun.interesting.challenging psychosocial intervention.

Folks living with the symptoms of dementia are stimulated, their attention is focused, they have a good time – and then return to their rooms to await the next Bing Crosby movie or Bingo session. Or, more likely to await nothing at all, but few take the time each day, three or four times a day to enable and encourage them to stay and understand today.

To borrow from Derick Hardin it is much like see a kitten by the side of the road and stopping and giving him/her a bowl of cold milk and then driving away. Did you do the kitten a favor, yourself a favor? Who will benefit longer than the time it took the cat to enjoy the milk? Is the poor little kitten who has obviously lost its mittens, and clearly does not know where or how to find them better off for the experience? Or worse off?

You decide.

Richard

Comment on adventures in reading… by Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:35:53 +0000

Hello, and A Men. You get “it.” You are empathic with “it.” We are all at heart and in brain the same needy human beings until shortly after we draw our last breath. Disabilities do not drain anyone’s need for their higher levels to be met, only our ability to meet them themselves is diminished. We do a good job of figuring out what babies need, and cannot secure for themselves. We drop the ball as soon as people living with the symptoms of dementia forget or become confused about proper names and faces.

We need enabling support to meet them ourselves. We need reabling support when dementia so diminishes our communication skills, and so confuses our brains that we can’t figure out for ourselves exactly what it is we do need.

Thank you for being Anne and for repeeattedly standing up and speaking out.
I am proud and honored to be your friend, Richard

Comment on A blast from 1983 by Dehaeck Wouter

Dehaeck Wouter — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:52:13 +0000

I was diagnosed with Alzheimers In January of this year.( 57 years old)
Stopped working as a rural physician at the same time.
I have done a lot of reading about Alzheimers, and read your very interesting book Richard.

I read Eckart Tolle’s “The Power of Now”, and can’t help thinking that ” normal” people (without dementia) want to live in the “Now”, and we,because of Alzheimers,, that live in the “now” are labeled as “diseased”

Wouter

Comment on ABOUT by Mary Kay Baum

Mary Kay Baum — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:34:34 +0000

excellent approach! Thanks for bveing on public radio this morning.