Welcome to the August newsletter!
How Family Caregivers Can Deal With Guilt Over Placing a Family Member in a Nursing Home
When the time came, I knew that my mother needed to move into a nursing home. She knew it, too.
Because of her poor balance, she’d had several falls during the previous year and suffered broken bones that required hospitalizations. It was no longer safe for her to live alone in her apartment, and we could not afford to hire round-the-clock aides to stay with her.
How Family Caregiving Can Alter Dreams and Goals Deferred
“I don’t want my mother to die,” said Valerie, my 62-year-old psychotherapy client, “but, when she does, I am looking forward to finally getting back to the rest of my life.”
She had put her work and social life on hold for four years to care for her mother, who was steadily declining from dementia.
11 Ways to Manage Sundown Syndrome
If your loved one has Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, you may be seeing changes in their behavior in the late afternoon or early evening — a phenomenon known as sundown syndrome, sundowners or sundowning.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, as many as 20 percent of people with Alzheimer’s experience sundown syndrome.