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Here are several activities that can be done independently or in small groups with most, early to mid-stage, dementia folks

Before you begin to design or use an activity with persons with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia, it is of the utmost importance that you know their likes and dislikes. You should know their strengths and weaknesses. Also helpful is knowledge of the persons’ past life and experiences.

When It Comes To Aging, Real is Really In

Over the past decade, our eyes have become accustomed to funny looking kids who talk to us from our TV sets -- those E-trade babies are a big hit. Funny looking, is the new adorable. If we got used to seeing more realistic images of midlife men and women, perhaps we'd feel the same way about how we view the visual changes brought on by aging. None of us -- even the most beautiful of women -- is immune. Perhaps we would come to admire how we earned those lines by putting the spotlight on just the right places.  








A New Pumping Device Brings Hope For Dick Cheney

... Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating from surgery to implant the kind of mechanical pump now being given to a small but growing number of people with heart failure so severe that they would most likely die within a few months without it.