Tag: dementia

An elderly woman making pies with a young woman

When my grandmother was spirited away by dementia and no longer recognized me, I stopped visiting her in the nursing home. I didn’t understand this at the time but now think that I just wanted to remember her baking lemon cream pies or waving at me as she rode around on her lawnmower cropping t…

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The federal government has released online brochures to give people who are thrust into a caregiving role a better idea of what they’re getting into. “It’s a big shock at first and a big adjustment,” an Episcopal priest says in the video above. He became his mother’s caregiver after she developed dementia. But people who…