No prescription medication can take away loneliness or the feeling of isolation. There may be no words that can make an elderly or ill person feel better, but non-verbal connections, such as a kind touch, can make an elderly person feel as though you care in a way that words, or even deeds, cannot. Often, [...]

Presents for the Person With Frontotemporal Dementia What do you buy a man or woman that only reads in small spurts, doesn’t write, doesn’t drive, doesn’t have any hobbies and can’t do anything on his or her own that requires multiple steps? Someone with an advanced condition of aphasia as a part of his or [...]

The Boomers, most of us know, are the children born after the Second World War and before 1965. World-wide optimism at this time resulted in a huge jump in the birth rate and this had far reaching effects which we are feeling now as these babies are now our aging population and we are scrambling [...]

Four Things to Not Do When It Is Not Just Dementia For those of you with a loved one who suffers from dementia of any sort, it is hard to see them fade in their ability to remember familiar surroundings, important experiences from the past or even remember you. And as if that is not [...]