The difference between mind and memory – In Memory of Mary Elizabeth Tobin RSCJ

September 25th, 2012 → 1:06 pm @

I knew I had finally found the right title for my book when an elder I was visiting repeated several times after I said the title – “Isn’t that a great title?” Then she asked me to repeat the title after which she repeated again, “Isn’t that a great title?” When this same exchange repeated […]

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The blessings of reciprocal caregiving

August 10th, 2012 → 4:57 pm @

“I think I have a lily going to sleep,” my mother would say in the early stages of her dementia. Why didn’t I realize then that she was talking about death of her own brain cells due to Alzheimer’s as well as death of her flowers? A long denied stigma especially in the medical world […]

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