Notices by Ian Kremer (lead_coalition@mastodon.world), page 2

#Caregiving can be a day-by-day battle to overcome self-doubt. We are stronger when we acknowledge even our smallest victories.

#Alzheimers #dementia #mentalhealth #quote

Family isn’t always blood. Keep your heart open to friends, neighbors, fellow congregants and others who accept you for who you are and will be there for you no matter the changes that come.

#Alzheimers #dementia #mentalhealth #quote

As carers, we all have rough days, weeks, or months. Rough for ourselves, rough for our loved ones. If we are fortunate, we discover #resilience to try again.

#Alzheimers #dementia #mentalhealth #quote

All too often in #caregiving, we strive for perfection and struggle to forgive ourselves for anything less. We do best by our loved ones when we release our guilt, accept the limits of our endurance, and do what we must to restore ourselves for tomorrow.

#Alzheimers #dementia

Even behind the veil of #dementia, we are loving, thinking, feeling human beings.'

#Alzheimers #poetry

#Selfcare is not an indulgence, it is a necessity.

#mentalhealth #Alzheimers #dementia

Ever-mindful that while we all are in the same storm, we are not in the same boat.

#Alzheimers #dementia #mentalhealth #kindness #quote

At its core, good #caregiving is about finding a way to communicate — listening, watching and empathizing — to learn and respond to what the other person wants, needs and feels.

#Alzheimers #dementia #kindness #compassion

The joys children bring to those living with #dementia

#Alzheimers #happiness #kindness

People living with #dementia need our #empathy, not our judgment.

#Alzheimers

10 Things Not to Say to a Caregiver

#Alzheimers #dementia #BeKind #kindness

When someone talks past a person living with #Alzheimers disease or another form of #dementia as if he or she isn't even there, suggest this: “We are not here on earth to see through each other, we are here to see each other through."

#kindness #leadership #love #quote

This is the fight against #Alzheimers disease and other forms of #dementia.

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All we ask of those who have been spared personal experience with #dementia is simple empathy.

(#poetry by @morganhnichols) #Alzheimers

There is immense power in supporting people with #dementia to use their abilities rather than reminding them of what they are losing. This is a beautiful example of a strengths-based approach, an interests-based approach, a #kindness-based approach.

(image via @joseph_fasano_) #Alzheimers #poetry

Please share if you believe in the often symbiotic relationship between people living with #dementia and those who are #caregiving.

#Alzheimers #quote

Our sadness comes from what people with #Alzheimers or other forms of #dementia no longer can do, while their joy comes from what they still can do. However and whenever we are able, let’s embrace their abilities and their joys.

#happiness #quote

#Music cannot stop #dementia, but it can offer purpose, #happiness and connection.

#Alzheimers #quote

People with #Alzheimers disease and other forms of #dementia never lose their value.

#love #HumanRights #poetry

#Poetry about living with #dementia: "That You Remember Me"

#Alzheimers