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: Memory Care
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, …
Happy New Year, Mom
"Are you going to visit your Mum today?" my fiance asked. Usually it is a question easily answered, although the reason for the answer is not always simple. Today the answer is "no...it is just too hard". Today is New Year's Eve, 2017. Another chapter in my life and the life of everyone else closes and …
Cary to Calcutta 