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   I didn’t have time to prepare our home for Mother.  When I discovered her wandering in the snow one morning when I visited her home (I couldn’t find her when I arose and then discovered she’d circumvented the lock on the door and was looking outside for her cat), I had to move her to our home a month earlier than planned.
However, since my husband and I had been making weekly trips to her home 275 miles away and staying for 2 or 3 days, I had some idea what I had to do when Mother came to live with …read more

                   
Carol O’Dell visits us today at Alzheimer’s Notes to share her thoughts concerning Mothering Mother, a humorous and heartbreaking memoir about caring for her mother who developed Parkinson’s disease and a heart condition.  Carol faced situations many of us have in caring for a family member afflicted with Alzheimer’s.  The world of caregiving has many commonalities and brings us together to share, to cry, to laugh…and then realize, “It’s okay.  Someone else felt like this, too.  I’m not alone.”
(If you’d like to read an excerpt from Mothering Mother, visit her web site.  )
Mary Emma – People often ask …read more

Alzheimer’s Notes was listed on “Top 10 Sources” for Alzheimer’s information, created by Mackenzie Chan under her column “Losing Yourself” at http://www.toptensources.com/topten/alzheimers/
Ms Chan mentions that the resources in her Top 10 list “give a view of what the concerns are for Alzheimer’s patients and their caretakers.”