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 | With the holidays fast approaching, families often can't avoid the inevitable coming together of children and relatives with Alzheimer's disease. In a recent blog post, I noted that in South Korea, clever ways of discussing dementia with kindergarden children are occurring, by using tofu to illustrate how the brain gets damaged in Alzheimer's disease. We need to do a better job of talking to our youngsters about dementia, so I've decided to devote this week's newsletter to this important issue. | |
Helping a Child Whose Grandparent Has Alzheimer's
Even well educated adults have trouble understanding Alzheimer's disease, the behaviors that often accompany it, and the best ways to communicate with their affected loved ones. To a child, seeing their grandparent with Alzheimer's disease may be frightening, depressing, confusing, and embarrassing.... Read more
| Talking to Children About Alzheimer's Disease
At any age, children can sense discord and stress in their environment, so it's important to address any concerns before kids make erroneous assumptions... Read more
| Mamma Lou: A Family Copes With Alzheimer's Disease
To call Singing with Momma Lou solely a children's book about Alzheimer's Disease is to focus too narrowly. Yes, this children's picture book tells the story of nine year old Tamika and her grandmother, Momma Lou, who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, and the author does an excellent job of it.... Read more
| Books, Mags, and Movies
Now that Alzheimer's has finally been recognized as significantly impacting society, an abundance of books, magazines, and movies have been created addressing different aspects of the disease.
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