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On Aug. 25, 1967, in front of a laundromat at a nondescript neighborhood strip mall in the quiet Washington, D.C., suburb of Arlington, Va., American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell was gunned down.
When Carol B. Amos began Alzheimer's caregiving for her mother, she learned that help, organization, preparation, and education, or H.O.P.E., helped her navigate the various stages of the journey.
“We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of those materials.” This well-known denial associated with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was first popularized during a remarkable Cold War event.
Older Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than older white people to have Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia, according to a recent report by the Alzheimer’s Association.
Once a striving, self-sufficient community of former slaves in Prince William County, Batestown today is a proud but bitter memory for its former residents and their descendants.
“Notice: Was committed to the jail of Prince William County, on the 9th day of December last . . . as a runaway, who calls himself William Hyden. . . He has no papers whatsoever. If there be any owner, he is requested to come forward as the law requires and take him away.”
For many older people unable or unwilling to drive, a volunteer driving program plays a key role in helping them stay in their homes and maintain independence.
“The irony,” said Barry Centini, Ph.D, “is [I am] describing my brain malfunctions using a partially malfunctioning brain.”
Important developments in Alzheimer’s research and methods of caregiving are offering new hope for the treatment and care of dementia patients, according to experts who participated virtually in the 36th Annual Caregiver’s Conference recently.
Caregiving experts and vendors came together in Purcellville recently for the 2022 Blue Ridge Dementia Care Conference to help those caring for, or beginning to care for, dementia patients.
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