Visiting my Mom at her Memory Care Home requires advance planning to maximize the potential for a good, meaningful visit. This involves calculating the best time of day to arrive, taking into account the sequence of care activities for daily living. It also requires anticipating the time for the start of the parade of wheelchairs, …
Tag: Assisted Living
The Teacher
We all have memories about different teachers throughout our years in school. In high school, course selections were often made because of the teacher, not the actual course itself. There were teachers that EVERYONE wanted because their delivery style was lively and interesting or their class was an "easy A". We sometimes made a selection because the teacher had the ability to share course material in …
There’s A New Lady In Town
The Assisted Living home where my mother lives refers to their Memory Care floor as "Reminiscence". This a much more gentle label, in my opinion. "Memory Care" suggests requiring aid due to a deficit or a loss, which may have a negative connotation, but "Reminiscence" suggests recollections of events, significant people or times from the past, …
Cary to Calcutta 