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Mood Music: Lifting Spirits of Dementia Patients

By Treva Lind — 2018

While music is known for lifting moods, rising evidence shows profound responses when favorite tunes are played for dementia patients.

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How to Ask for Help

Learn to communicate skillfully with others so you can get the help you need.

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Toni Bernhard
2011
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What to Say to Someone Who’s Very Sick

Expert advice on finding the right words, listening well, and getting specific about offers of help.

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Hallie Levine
2018
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What Are the Signs that Someone Is Close to Death?

If a person or loved one is elderly or has a terminal illness, knowing death may be near is often difficult to deal with or comprehend. Understanding what to expect may make things a little easier.

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Lana Burgess
2020
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Alzheimer’s in the Family

Dementia affects the person diagnosed but also raises fears for siblings and children. Here are the facts.

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Harvard Health Publishing
2019
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Programs that Compensate Family Members to Care for Loved Ones with Alzheimer’s or Dementia

Caring for a loved one with dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, can be a difficult task. Often this task falls to a family member, and as the disease progresses, the care needs become greater, requiring more hours of the caregiver’s time.

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Dementia Care Central
2019
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Caught Between Young Kids and a Parent with Alzheimer’s, I Found a Lifeline on the Playground

My mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decline were a painful and lonely journey, one that coincided with an otherwise unbearably hectic time. My two children were still in diapers.

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Meg Ounsworth Steere
2019
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Responding When Someone with Dementia Wants Her Mom or Dad

It can be helpful to arm yourself with understanding about why this happens and have a couple of responses prepared to try to help your loved one.

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Esther Heerema
2019
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Portals Not Problem Solvers

As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.

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Frank Ostaseski
2017
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10 Ways to Support an Ill or Injured Loved One

Whether a permanent disability, a severe injury, an illness, or a mental health issue, an immobilizing condition can be emotionally devastating for the sufferer. Isolation can bleed into loneliness which can quickly turn into depression, all the while plummeting feelings of self-worth.

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Cindy Batchelor
2018
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How to Cope When a Loved One Has a Serious Mental Illness

How mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and major depressive disorder can affect family and friends.

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Shirley M. Glynn, PhD, Karen Kangas, EdD, and Susan Pickett, PhD
2015
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