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Long-Distance Dementia Caregiving: MA Parent GuideBlog
Long-Distance Caregiving for a Parent With Dementia in Massachusetts: A Guide for Out-of-State Families
If you’re reading this from Austin or Seattle or London while your mother’s dementia progresses in Massachusetts, you know the particular cruelty of distance: the guilt that never...
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Preventing a Second Stroke: Daily Habits That HelpBlog
Preventing a Second Stroke: The Daily Habits and Home Support That Lower the Risk
Surviving a stroke hands a family two assignments at once: recover from the first one, and prevent the next one. The second assignment deserves more attention than it usually gets &mdash...
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The First 90 Days After a Stroke: A Home Recovery Roadmap for Massachusetts FamiliesBlog
The First 90 Days After a Stroke: A Home Recovery Roadmap for Massachusetts Families
The discharge papers are signed, the hospital bracelet is off — and suddenly your family is home with a changed person, a folder of instructions, and a question nobody fully...
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Repetition, Rummaging, and Accusations: Understanding Common Dementia Behaviors — and How to Respond
The question asked forty times before lunch. The drawers emptied and “organized” daily. The wedding ring — hidden for safekeeping, then reported stolen, with you as the suspect....
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The First Year After a Dementia Diagnosis: What to Do While Time Is on Your SideBlog
The First Year After a Dementia Diagnosis: What to Do While Time Is on Your Side
A dementia diagnosis lands like an ending — but the first year after it is actually the family’s window of greatest power. In early-stage dementia, your loved one can still sign...
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Alzheimer’s Is Not the Only Dementia: Why the Specific Diagnosis Changes Home CareBlog
Alzheimer’s Is Not the Only Dementia: Why the Specific Diagnosis Changes Home Care
Families often use “Alzheimer’s” and “dementia” interchangeably — understandable, since Alzheimer’s causes the majority of cases. But dementia...
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How to Talk to a Loved One With Dementia: What to Say When Words Stop WorkingBlog
How to Talk to a Loved One With Dementia: What to Say When Words Stop Working
Of everything dementia takes, conversation may be the loss families feel most — the person is right there, and yet the old back-and-forth keeps breaking down into corrections, arguments, and...
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The Medicare GUIDE Program: A New Lifeline for Families Facing Dementia
Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia is one of the most demanding roles a family member can take on. Between managing medications, coordinating doctor...
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How one Waltham family caring for a husband and father with Alzheimer's went from nightly crises to a sustainable home care routine — a representative case study from BrightStar Care of Concord, LexinBlog
How one Waltham family caring for a husband and father with Alzheimer's went from nightly crises to a sustainable home care routine — a representative case study from BrightStar Care of Concord, Lexin
Guides and checklists explain dementia home care; a family’s story shows what it feels like. This case study — a representative composite drawn from families BrightStar Care of...
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Dementia Home Safety: Room-by-Room Checklist | MABlog
Dementia Home Safety: Room-by-Room Checklist | MA
Keeping a loved one with dementia at home — the goal of nearly every family we meet — depends on one unglamorous project: making the home itself safe as abilities change...
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