another crusader
A story from The Idaho Statesmen. Cindy Jacklich, an Alzheimer’s sufferer, visited a number of businesses to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association. She details the eventual realization that she was having problems and what it’s like to go out in public and deal with people who don’t understand the situation.
life enrichment
Had to take a blogging break. Between family reunions, work and vacations I’ve been a little drained.
My father has started going to a life enrichment center program for dementia sufferers. It was a battle because he’s still so aware and he’s humiliated. Despite the pretense of him being a volunteer to help the people in the program, I think that he still sometimes realizes that it’s really baby-sitting him. He has a lot of fun when he goes. It’s still hard though to know that we’ve reached that stage and that the next logical phase is more full time help.
Still, it at least takes some worry off of my mother.
