The Dementia Caregiver's Toolbox

Dementia Goes Green?

In honor of Earth day today, I started thinking about being green and whether it even applies to dementia caregiving.  Here is what I found....

Dementia & PET Scans: 5 Facts

Today we have a guest post from Kat Sanders from the MRI Tech Health Blog.  She gives us some valuable info on PET scans and how they may be helpful in dementia.  Read on.....

Dementia Book Review: I'm Still Here

I'm still enjoying the recent group of books that have come out lately about the dementia or Alzheimer's experience.  I am slowly getting to all of them.  I want to recommend one of the new books by John Zeisel, PhD called, I'm Still Here:  A Breakthrough Approach To Understanding Someone Living With Alzheimer's.

Dementia Care: Using The Past To Help In The Present

Knowing a person's past and all the details about them is a great strategy for helping a person with dementia cope with the present moment.  Using this valuable information, a dementia caregiver can assist the person with dementia to spend quality time that has meaning.....to them.  An easy way to do this is to make "reminiscence boxes".