Being a caregiver to someone inflicted with Alzheimer’s Disease can be all consuming. Hopefully this might help…
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In Honour of Alzheimer’s Month
Back in 2019, I wrote 3 short essays about my mother who passed a few years earlier from Alzheimer’s Disease…
What Keeps Us Young
I live on a street of small houses mostly built 75 to 100 years ago. Its residents are eclectic: seniors who’ve lived here for ages, young families who’ve purchased their ‘starter homes’, and because we live near a university, transient students in rental homes. There are often curb conversations about how busy the younger folk …
Do Most Couples Talk?
Finding your soulmate later in life has both challenges and rewards. The challenges include being set in your ways and carrying baggage from previous relationships and life in general. Without sounding too corny the benefits can be summed up in the Streisand/Adams song: “I finally found someoneWho knocks me off my feetI finally found the …
Survivors of Grief
For most of my life, I thought grief was connected solely to death: how one feels after the loss of a loved one. It was not until I visited a psychiatrist when I was 60 years old that I understood grief is a reaction to loss which doesn’t necessarily include death. I sought the advice …
Remembering Mom Part 3 – How to Help Your Dementia Loved One
Realizing your parent or any loved one may have dementia is a tough one. I live with the regretful feeling that I should have recognized it sooner. At the time I was absorbed with my own life drama, but that’s no excuse. My hope is that what I learned as a daughter, observer and eventual …
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Autumn Years
I’ll admit to looking at pictures of my highschool classmates on Facebook and comparing hair colour, wrinkles and weight – not in a jealous or mean way, but as an inspiration to stay vibrant. There are those who look like they’ve given up and there are those who are out mountain climbing, cycling and travelling …
Hindsight: My Journey 