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#WeAreDementiaStrong: We’re Presenting at the Pioneer Network Conference!
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Brian LeBlanc #WeAreDementiaStrong is heading back to the Pioneering a New Culture of Aging Conference, July 27-30 in beautiful Denver! I couldn’t be more excited after a couple years off (due to that nasty Covid stuff) to laugh with old friends and continue important conversations around […]
Dealing with the Emotions of Life-Care Planning
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Brian LeBlanc I was upset. So was Maureen. I suspect a number of our care partners were, too. But the conversation needed to be had. We needed to update our life-care plan – to have the tough talk some of us desperately needed. The tough talk […]
Our New 2-2-2 Life-Care Plan
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Maureen Rulison We’ve said for a long time now that a well-made life-care plan should be flexible. It should account for the expected – and unexpected – that comes with aging in good health and bad. It should factor the care recipient’s needs. Just as importantly, […]
Inside the Mind of a Care Partner
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Maureen Rulison It’s early morning. I’m up and moving quickly. Brian is still asleep. “Good,” I say quietly. “He had a rough one yesterday.” And I then remember he’s been in a brain fog for the better part of four days. That’s happening more often. At […]
Dementia Meditations: ‘Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow’
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Brian LeBlanc “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” I believe that was our good friend, Mr. Bill Shakespeare. You might be inclined to think this is another blog about death. We talk about it a lot. It’s a very real thing that will someday happen as a […]
Dementia Meditations: Living on the Way to Dying
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Brian LeBlanc I hate to be a downer. Anyone who truly knows me knows that – that I’m always looking to find the good, to find the laughter, to smile. Because we’re all “on the way out,” only at different stages. For me, with my Alzheimer’s […]
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