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This caregiver has taken the care to detail a number of real life interactions she's experienced while caregiving her own father and the many Alzheimer's patients at the nursing home. She's won awards for her caregiving efforts, actually.

What many people do not realize when first dealing with Alzheimer's is that the sufferer still has a lot of memory cords left, triggers that will move them, calm them, agitate them...have meaning for them. One woman patient would go around the nursing home yelling out numbers. The caregivers eventually made a game of it with the woman, and it wasn't until the woman died that they were told the patient was an avid bingo player. If they'd only known, they could have worked the concept a bit and offered the woman more of a connection to her pleasurable memories.

Other patients would follow the caregivers around, or hang around the nursing station, checking on things. They then found these patients were nurses themselves, and thought they should be on the job.

Lots of examples, simple stories told with heart. Will help anyone caring for people with memory problems.

A review from well known Alzheimer's speaker and author of "Creating Moment Of Joy" Jolene Brackey -- This book shares what is possible if we allow a person with Alzheimer's to "be" who they are right now. Thank you for "opening" a window.