Logan Hassinger shares some insights about navigating the sandwich generation maze, particularly relating to housing and transition issues, using strategic planning and smart renovations.
Navigating the “Sandwich Generation” Maze
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Category: Care Tips
Alzheimer’s Care Tips for Hard Situations
The Alzheimer’s journey may be filled with many challenging and difficult decisions. Here, we’ve gathered helpful links to Alzheimer’s care tips for hard situations, including driving and dementia.
Links to Alzheimer’s Care Tips
We’ve put together a list of some other organizations providing Alzheimer’s care tips, and included a few direct links to helpful articles we found on each organization’s website.
Dementia Care Tips: Celebrating Holidays
If you have a loved one living with Alzheimer’s or another type of dementia, your holidays will look different. That’s okay. It’s a new chapter.
Loving and Laughing – An Alzheimer’s Caregiver Story
While caring for her husband who had Alzheimer’s, Polly Burns learned to cherish moments of love and laughter along the way.
Balancing Act – A Caregiver Story
A loving daughter shares about caring for her parents who are both living with dementia.
Holiday Activities to Enjoy With Someone Who Has Alzheimer’s
Fun, practical, family-friendly holiday activities with someone who has Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia.
7 Tips for Celebrating Holidays During the Alzheimer’s Journey
Holiday celebrations help keep your family connected. Treasure new memories. Feel the love. Cherish each moment of joy.
Ambiguous Loss and Dementia
Dementia creates ambiguous loss. Your loved one is here, but not here. It’s confusing. There’s no timetable, so no sense of closure.
Safe With Us: A Caregiver Story
Kim Foster helps care for her mother-in-law, Alice, who is living with dementia. Reflecting on an especially challenging stretch during the pandemic, she says: “It was the toughest three months I’ve ever spent caring for someone. But it was completely worth it.”
Not-So-Obvious Dementia Care Tips
When caring for a loved one living with dementia, learn to look at things in a new way. It’s easy to overlook the little things, but those little things may make a big difference.
Handmade Cards and a Legacy of Love
Sending handmade cards and personal notes can help families stay connected during the Alzheimer’s journey.