"Alzheimer's can be called the long good-bye. You grieve about the loved one from the moment you begin to observe the gradual loss of memory and the speech and personality changes, because they are incurable. The person you love is gradually changing before your eyes. You say good-bye many times until the final good-bye at death." |
Best FTD Resources
What If It's Not Alzheimer's |
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Association of Frontotemporal Dementia (Website) |
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Pick's Disease Support Group (Website) |
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University of California, San Francisco (Website) |
Family Caregiver Alliance (Website) |
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National Institutes of Health (Website) |
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Other Internet Articles
A Letter of Last Instructions A letter of last instruction is an organized way for you to give your family all the facts about your finances -- and have a basic tool for your own money management. http://info.ag.uidaho.edu/resources/PDFs/CIS0958.pdf Letters of Instructions are known as additions to wills, can be created for items that might not merit inclusion in a will, but nonetheless need to be distributed. These letters, which can be very detailed, might arrange for the disposal of old files, instructions for tasks like the upkeep of a home or what to do with a loyal canine companion. Take note that letters of instruction are not legal documents so, items of personal importance or high value should be included in a will. |
Public Broadcast Systems offers a website called http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/ Idaho Website |
Do you have a hospital bed? If so lower it so that you get a better center of gravity, have the commode next to the bed - so that once he is in a standing position (pants down) its a matter of pivoting and landing him on the commode. Then the reverse to get him back in bed. Is there a nursing home, or college that offers |
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