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Originally Posted by JoJo6
I want to wish a warm welcome to everyone that comes thru that door.
I want to thank Dr.John Grohol for opening these forums and has been so very generous with his time and caring.
I also want to thank all those who helped get the word out about this forum.
Alzheimer's and Dementia are 2 Disease's that work much the same and they are both heartbreaking for family & patient.
some helpful sites, but we don't want the whole forum filled with sites and no room for those that need to talk things out, share and be helpful to each other.
These are "Family Diseases". It effects everybody around them. I hope you won't be shy, just enter talking . 
Lets get started and make this a good forum for all who enter. I'm JoJo, some know me as Julia, call me which ever but I go by JoJo mostly her on the forum. |
When I said Alzheimer's and Dementia were "family diseases" I meant they affect the whole family, from parents down to the youngest, especially if mom is the caregiver. It's very hard on children to cope with a LO that does not remember from 1 min. to the other who they are, much less the grand kids.
Al, just because one ages doesn't mean they start falling all the time. Patient Abuse in Nursing Homes are a great concern for family as well as patient advocates. I don't know how it is in other states, but the state I live in have services that visits NH without prior notice.
I'm not picking on you Al. those are just facts. We also read everything we could find our hands on and yes MRSD, I do know the internet has a mulitude of info just at out fingertips.
I don't know everything, but I have not been sitting on my thumb all these years waiting for someone to find a cure for these diseases. There are many things I would like to address, but if no one here has a need for it my time would be better spent other places.
Several times MIL got broken bones from abuse, whether it was the staff or another patient., abuse is abuse! The 1st NH MIL was in, the one where a patient pushed her hard enough to cause her to fall backwards & fracture her skull, we never took her back to that NH. WE moved her the day she was out of the hospital.
She entered the 2nd NH with all her records, including the ones she had from the fractured skull. The staff were well aware Why she had these injuries. BTW, we got her into this better staffed NH because we had already been looking for one.