My mom reached out from her wheel chair and touched the peach fuzz hair of the toddler playing with the brake handle of her wheel chair.  Little Alex looked up at Great Grandma and grinned.  She smiled, too, and I marveled at this communication that seemed to pass between the two.
As Alex began to form words and Mothers’ became more mumbled utterances than clear syllables, they made sounds together. 
“Gramma talk to me,” Alex would say.
“What did she say?” I’d ask.
“Dunno,” he replied.  “Gramma talk to me.”
There apparently was a type of communication between the older lady with Alzheimer’s and the little boy.  …read more

When I had to move my mom from her home in New York State, 275 miles from mine in New Hampshire, I wanted to keep my siblings, niece and nephews, and my daughter up to date on what was happening in Mother’s Alzheimer’s world.  I would have wanted to know, if she’d gone to live with someone else, so I assumed they would want to be informed.
So I began writing a monthly newsletter.  This communication also can be accomplished with an e-letter to any of the family who has e-mail.
This way, they can’t say, when they do visit the family member and find him/her …read more