At age 71, my mother was living in stage 7f of early-onset dementia not-otherwise-specified for a year. Shortly before she died on August 23,…
Alzheimer’s disease is a complex journey, both for those experiencing it and their caregivers. Early in the condition, a person will experience mild memory…
It took six men to catch my screaming, naked father and strap him to a hospital gurney. My dad, the 80-year-old pacifist Buddhist, the…
A few months before Jasja De Smedt Kotterman’s mother died of Alzheimer’s at age 76, Kotterman found her mother staring vacantly at a meal,…
Maggie Ellis, a senior lecturer at St. Andrews University, is currently studying a method of communication used with nonverbal individuals for its applications in…
Caregiving for a person who is nearing the end of their dementia journey is a challenging role, whether someone is doing it professionally or…
In the 1980s, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student of English, developing her expertise in language and literature, her father Jerry, now deceased,…
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on all of us, but for people living with dementia and their families, the public health crisis…
Most people in the late stages of dementia eventually lose the ability to feed themselves. Tube feeding — a tube inserted into the stomach…
As many as half of people living with Alzheimer’s may lose the ability to feed themselves as the disease progresses. Declining motor, sensory and cognitive…
Treading into ethically and legally uncertain territory, a New York end-of-life agency has approved a new document that lets people stipulate in advance that…