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In Learning to Speak Alzheimer's:A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease, Joanne Koenig Coste writes about greeting a woman she knew in an Alzheimer...
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Three Christmases ago, Woody Geist was more than a decade into Alzheimer's and could no longer remember the names of his three daughters, much less those of his fellow Grun...
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Most people know Leeza Gibbons from her ten years as host of the TV tabloid Entertainment Tonight, or her six years on the daytime talk show Leeza. But a growing number are...
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Many people want to connect with their loved ones on a deeper level -- emotionally and physically -- before they die, but how exactly do you do that? And how do you know if...
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A man in his late 60s has a stroke and loses his speech. After two years of intense speech therapy, he still can't talk. From a treatment standpoint, he's considered "...
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Hector Elizondo isn't a psychiatrist. He just plays one on TV -- in the popular series Monk. So when Elizondo's real-life mother, Carmen, developed Alzheimer's disease in t...
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Of the many courageous things Muhammad Ali has done in and out of the boxing ring, one of the most courageous is putting his body -- once a symbol of athletic power and gra...
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When the car Carol Levine's husband was driving skidded off an icy road and tumbled down an embankment in 1990, she was plunged in an instant into 17 years as a caregiver. ...
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In the heat of this fall's presidential campaign and the economic disaster that dominated it, most people may not have noticed that more attention was paid to the views of ...
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How can you truly understand what life feels like for a someone in a wheelchair? Borrowing from the old adage "walk a mile in my shoes," Gretchen Berland's docume...
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As an architect and designer, Michael Graves is famous for combining purpose with wit and beauty, from the Swan and Dolphin hotels in Walt Disney World to the Humana Buildi...
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When her father died in 2003, Barbara Kate Repa had been an attorney for 22 years. She'd written often about eldercare issues and coauthored advanced versions of WillMaker,...
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“People act on the basis of their perception of reality,” a pollster for Ronald Reagan once said -- and in modern America, people’s perceptions are largel...
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Getting diagnosed with Parkinson's disease is not easy for anyone. But not getting diagnosed with it promptly can be worse. Rasheda Ali-Walsh's father, Muhammad Ali, is the...
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"If there's one thing I wish I'd known sooner, it's that geriatric care managers exist," says David Boorstin, a prominent consultant in corporate branding and one...
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During the last two decades, David Boorstin and his brothers have witnessed dementia strike both their father and mother. Before he began an eight-year battle with the dise...
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When geriatrician Bill Thomas was the medical director of a nursing home in upstate New York in the early 1990s, he was asked to a see a patient -- a very old woman who had...
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For nearly a year, Jacqueline Marcell tried to get help dealing with her father, a man who had always had a temper but had abruptly become violent at the age of 82. Even af...
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In the midst of suffering a stroke, Jill Bolte Taylor may have been the only person who ever thought, "Wow, this is so cool!"Or maybe not. The way that Taylor, th...
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During the ten years that Barbara McVicker was caring for her parents, working, and raising a family, she never took a day off. Impressive? McVicker -- who, with her daught...
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In 2001, the doctor in Gretchen Berland wondered if physicians, nurses, professional caregivers, and others in the new era of "patient-centered care" really have ...
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One of the first things Michael Graves learned when he was paralyzed at the age of 68, in 2003, was that not all paralysis, or the pain that accompanies it, is the same. 'I...
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When the family caregiver to a woman with late-stage breast cancer is a doctor, she knows exactly what to do, right? Not necessarily. Hope Rugo was an oncologist, hematolog...
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In The Sandwich Generation and Living With Herbie, filmmaker Julie Winokur and photojournalist Ed Kashi turned their lenses on themselves, documenting their family's day-to...
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When Ida Hieb moved into a state-run nursing home in Ohio after a small stroke, it was supposed to be a short stay. She ended up living there until her death a few years la...
