The Doc’s 3 Ds: 1) Dementia, 2) Alzheimer’s Disease, 3) Delirium

by jk3ith16 | Nov 1, 2016 | Uncategorized

Compiled from Subject Matter Experts at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1) Dementia Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. Worldwide, it accounts for 60-80% of all reported cases of dementia. Dementia refers to a significant intellectual...

Handy Dandy

by jk3ith16 | Oct 1, 2016 | Uncategorized

Miss Mary was sensible. She did things like collect and save every button she ever found and store it safely for future use in a canister branded Handy Dandy. In the course of her lifetime, whenever a member of the family lost a button, she opened the canister and...

Rule of Thumb

by jk3ith16 | Sep 1, 2016 | Uncategorized

With all that senior caregiving involves, there is really only one rule of thumb spoken by Miss Mary that has stood the test of time – Make mine a double, Pussycat. One evening after a day of work focused on preventing various disease states, I nipped by Miss Mary’s...