Everyone was,” Mommy told me.
One of her favorite teachers was Helen Jean Wiglesworth, who, the way Mommy told it, used to parade her from classroom to classroom to show her off when she aced standardized tests.
(Photo: Britt Kennerly / FLORIDA TODAY)The grip of dementia intensified in 2016, and that May, the vascular dementia diagnosis was determined.
I let the subscription lapse when my sister told me she’d found dozens of unread papers under Mommy’s bed, some still in the bags.
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(Photo: Britt Kennerly / FLORIDA TODAY)I snapped pictures of her as she tried out the armchair.
(Photo: Britt Kennerly / FLORIDA TODAY)So, on a day where the temperature topped 90 early, we did the town.
(Photo: Britt Kennerly / FLORIDA TODAY)She was a little intimidated as we passed through Secret Service checkpoints, but schmoozed with everyone she met.
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CLOSE Scientist are reconsidering how they study and review the progressive mental deterioration known at Alzheimer's disease.
WochitDick and Kerry Goodson.
The Goodsons will participate in a program at noon on March 13 at Des Moines University’s Student Education Center on patient and family perspectives on Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias.
Dick Goodson could be a poster child for embracing the challenges of aging.
Before retiring seven years ago, Dick, 74, had owned a successful association management company.
I felt that, too, when I met you.” It was the last question I asked Neysa during our interview.
When assisted living regulations initially excluded her based upon certain guidelines, she persisted and reapplied.
This is her third assisted living facility in Knoxville, and was accepted as an individual who was anything but average.
They may be family or strangers, your caregivers and nurses, or a resident in assisted living.
But it seems clear to those whom she has met along the path of assisted living.