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15 Oct

Dementia and Math and my Dad

Dad’s gone into his shell. He’d simply stopped thinking. To get him back I decided to go back to what he was good at. Math. Actually he was a wizard with numbers. You gave him a number and some logic and he could intuitively...

Case studies, Elder Care

10 Oct

How elder and dementia care help stubborn parents?

We all know how stubborn elderly parents can get, especially when it comes to taking the advice of their ‘kids’. It is futile to argue with them because “parents are always right”, correct? Another factor that makes them stubborn is their fear of losing...

Elder Care

06 Oct

Sudden Falls Are Not Normal in Old Age

Having an elderly person at home increases responsibilities. With old age come many unwanted strain, the most feared one is definitely sudden falls. Falls are the single biggest reason for death and wounds amongst older adults. Due to our busy lives, the elderly ones...

Home Security

06 Oct

Diary of a Caregiver: Dementia

I’m going through a roller coaster. Not been sleeping well… too many memories, too many emotions of Mum bubbling inside me. She’s totally lost in her own world now…it went downhill so quickly and so bewilderingly fast for five years it was slow and...

Case studies

20 Jul

My Father, The Travel Lover

My father has always been the kind to travel to distant places within the country, places that usually involve a lot of (what seems to me unnecessarily) walking. In the earliest memories that I have of him and his travels, he would disappear for...

Travels

15 Jun

Happy Father’s Day, Baba!

The younger of two girls, I was always my father’s pet. All those times of Baba making me practice mathematics with oceans of patience, walking me to school, instilling values in me are indelibly etched in my memory. I’ll never forget what he told...

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