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Home InsteadLaurie Owen from Home Instead and Dr. Jane Potter from the University of Nebraska Medical Center discuss how Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are diagnosed.
There are a wide range of healthcare professionals including psychologists, social workers, neurologists, geriatricians, or your internist, or a family doctor who can diagnose Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.
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May 12, 2012 at 12:33 pm | Posted by Fernando
I helped move my mom from a one beodorm independent apartment in a residential care facility to a studio apartment. Mom is running out of money and I quickly. No one really anticipated this. The good news is that she has remained independent longer than we thought. (Mom has Parkinsons and a long term care policy that will kick in when she needs assisted living.) The bad news is that she will probably run out of money before she needs the care. I am exhausted and living in a fog. My sister is helping her unpack and settle in this weekend. She flew in from CA leaving her husband and two young girls who start school on Monday. I don't think she will get everything done with mom because mom will have to get rid of at least 50% more stuff to really make the small space work. I dread dealing with the left overs when she leaves. Mom has Parkinsons and needs more and more help. I thought I was in the thick of things 8 years ago when she was diagnosed and she moved from her condo. Now I realize that it is really just being for me. The last years of a move, multiple falls, emergency room visits, managing multiple medications well that is seeming easy now. I am not looking forward to the next stage. I am not looking forward to aging myself.
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April 13, 2012 at 5:44 pm | Posted by Kathleen
my mom is 96 and in rehab now. She is recovering from pnemonia. Physical thereophy is trying to get her to walk and she has such a fear of falling she cannot do this now. They are now using a lift maching to get her from a wheel chair or toliet to move her. she cannot get from a sitting position to her walker like she did a couple of weeks ago. She is putting her feet way out and trying to stand by pulling up on the walker and then screaming that she is falling. Is this a form of dementia?
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