Dementia Friends – What They Have Given Me
There are people who walk beside you for a season,
and there are people who change the way you understand the path itself.
Category Archives: Relationships
The Symptom No One Mentions; Runny Nose
Some symptoms arrive with names and checklists. Others you only learn by living them. For me, one of those has been a persistent, watery runny nose—present for years, yet rarely mentioned in discussions of Lewy body dementia. When paired with unpredictable night sweating, a pattern begins to emerge: not random nuisances, but signs of an autonomic system that no longer regulates quietly in the background. Sometimes the body is speaking clearly. It is the categories that are still catching up.
Thinking, Carried Heart to Heart
What I see in dementia peer groups is not the loss of intelligence, but its transformation. Ideas move between people—shifting, softening, connecting—until what no one could solve alone becomes something we can carry together. This painting of a circle is not about completeness, but about relationship: an intelligence made not of certainty, but of shared, adaptive, and deeply human ways of knowing.
Helpful Gifts for Persons Living with Dementia symptoms
When finding a gift for a person living with dementia, often one of the thoughts is a “helpful” gift. Of course choosing a “helpful” gift is very dependent on several factors. …
Appearance of “Lying”
… “Can it really be lying if we think it is the truth?” …
Care-Partnering is a Three-Legged Stool
… One leg of the stool needs to be the input from Person Living with Dementia. Second leg of care is primary care-Partner. Third leg of care is ALTERNATE care-Partner.
Color as Strategy
What our eyes see is interpreted by the brain, and this is probably a brain-failure issue.
About Visits
Visit timing, communication, activities & memory issues.
Inflammation Communication and all tied up
i expect these infections have something to do with my emotions that are out-of-control.
Repeat Questions
… strategies …
