I attended a workshop presented by the Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health on the topic of Dealing With Difficult Behaviors in the Patient with Dementia. The presenters were Dr. Laura Gitlin and Tracey Vause Earland, MS, OTR/L. Even though the topic was a challenging topic for me as a caregiver of my […]
I am on many mailing lists for different Assisted Living Facilities due to my helping to care for my mom. I received one that I am really excited about. It is given by Laura Gitlin, Ph.D. and Tracey Vause Earland, MS, OTR/L from the center for Applied Research on Aging Health, Jefferson College of Health […]
All year long we save our vegetable scraps and it turns into the most fantastic compost for my organic garden. I started one years ago when I went up to visit friends in Maine. I went to a restaurant called Primo, which I heard about through following the career of the chef-owner, Melissa Kelly. Besides […]
Today is my birthday; we celebrated with hats and balloons and close friends and family for my favorite dinner. When I was a child we always had the honor to choose our birthday cake and birthday dinner. I always picked spagetti and meatballs, and chocolate cake with vanilla icing. My mother always made the birthday […]
Did you ever consider yourself a yoyo?I recently took a book out of the library written by some people at Duke University, called The Duke Diet. You can find the website at the Duke diet website. Of course it was on weight loss, one of my favorite topics; this is because I love food, I […]
This was another wonderful Mother’s Day weekend. There was sadness of course, for there was the blatantly evident fact that my mother in law was not here. She passed away last fall.
I spent Saturday with my parents. My husband and I brought dinner over to my mom and dad and her caregiver Cindy. My mom […]
