Family Memories Are Precious

Do you have Halloween memories connected with your Alzheimer’s family member?  Memories you can share with your children and grandchildren?  Perhaps memories your Alzheimer’s patient will still understand.
Share these memories with your family so they see a side of the Alzheimer’s member not evident today.  They will realize he/she was not always a forgetful, non-functioning person.
My Mom and Halloween
My mom enjoyed Halloween with us four children.  She helped us make jack-o-lanterns, draw pictures, dunk for apples.  Mother assisted us with making costumes and drove us trick-or-treating. (In our farming community, the houses were fairly far apart.)
One year, …read more