Alzheimer's Disease And Baby Boomers

I have recently been studying Alzheimer's Disease as part of the site development. Currently 1 in 10 seniors (over the age of 65) has some level of Alzheimer's. This week I saw a documentary on the subject on PBS that said once we get in the middle of the baby boomers retirement, that Alzheimer's will be an epidemic. With 78 million baby boomers, that will be almost 8 million Alzheimer's patients in the US. Since Alzheimer's slowly takes away memory, ability to recognize family and friends, speech and even the ability to swallow, there will be a huge drain on society and on the country. The special estimated that the cost for caring for these seniors could be as a staging drain on the economy and a huge drain on the sandwich generation. In my case dad has a frontal lobe dementia which is equally bad. He does have some memory lose but he is losing his judgment first. He can't tell right from wrong so he makes a lot of bad decisions. We are still learning about how to treat the illness since we are awaiting news from the doctors.

Beyond The Veil

Beyond the Veil is a spiritual site for those looking for something more. It is an extensive resource that can help people with a family, internal and growth issues. The title tag for the home page is "Near Death Experience" but it seems to offer so much more. This site has been around for a long time (Over 11 years) and has build a great resource list for those dealing with seniors. Here you can find hope when dealing with death but you can also find resources for helping someone "enjoy every second. Diane also manages another site Transition Guide Training
Both Transition Guide Training and Beyond The Veil are site with no advertising and they are focused on help others with the difficult issues of death. Just make sure you use the .net extension to find the site or you will be taken to a wedding site. If you are dealing with a senior who is in an assisted living facility, hospice or nursing home, you may also need some help yourself and these resources are something you should check out. Namaste.

Assisted Living Love Gone Bad

Thing made a dramatic change for the worse this week. My father received a note from The Garden at Sandy Springs Assisted Living Facility that he would be forced out of the facility if he did not stop trying to see his ex girlfriend. The family has banned my father from seeing her. It is a little of a tale like Romeo And Juliet, the love each other but unfortunately, she has Alzheimer's and her doctor (and family) does not think she should be in a relationship so the two have been separated. Thing got really bad when dad locked himself in her bathroom and they had to get a locksmith to get him out. Currently he is find but my sister and I are betting he gets the boot eventually. So we are back looking for another Georgia assisted living facility. He wants to stay in Sandy Spring (Atlanta) so we will be checking out every facility in the area and posting the results on the site. Luckily dad does not have a ton of stuff to move. Again he thinks he should just move back into his old house but we can't let that happen, it is too unsafe.
Wendy at the assisted living facility says he is showing some dementia and he needs some extra care. Daaaa. He still thinks he is a rock star.

Assisted Living

This is the first post on the subject of helping family with assisted living and other senior transitions. My wife and I each have one living parent that is making the transition from living at home to living somewhere where they can get extra help. Hull ( my dad) moved into assisted living last year after a stroke. Mable is slowly losing her memory so she will need someone to help her in the next few years. We have made several plans for Mable but she soon forgets that we made the plan so they never happen. We have had to make several different changes to support our family and we are part of the sandwich generation ( rising kids at the same time we are caring for our parents). Add this to the general poor economic conditions and we are a very busy family. We hope that our experience can be shared with others and we hope that others have a smoother transition with their parents.