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Living With Aphasia
What Is Aphasia? You may have heard the term aphasia (pronounced “uh-fey-zhuh”) from your loved one’s medical team. This disorder is also being discussed in the news currently, due to actor Bruce Willis’ diagnosis. Aphasia is the medical term for problems with...
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Dementia Care and Communication during the Coronavirus Pandemic
By Rachael Wonderlin, MS Special thanks to Michelle Tristani from Benchmark Senior Living Communicating with people living with dementia is never an easy task: for many families, it’s the hardest thing they do on a regular basis. Concerned with how to answer...
The Importance of Conversation to End-of-Life Care in Dementia
"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."—William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Making decisions for another person at the end of their life is indeed a significant challenge. The challenge is even more...
On Dementia Patients and Air Travel
Raising dementia awareness can assist caregivers and airlines to meet the challenges of traveling with dementia. In light of the recent video showing a passenger on an airplane presenting dementia symptoms, and the disastrous outcome when asked to leave, I...
Five Common Myths Busted About Dementia
Why should everyone in the world raise their dementia-awareness? Across our country and around the world there is a lack of awareness, creating harmful myths surrounding dementia, thereby resulting in stigmatization, barriers to diagnosis and care, and...