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dementia

DIURNAL: active during the day (as opposed to nocturnal)

November 13, 2011

My wife reports that one of the symptoms of dementia may be a confused diurnal/nocturnal schedule.   When this occurs, the patient wants to sleep during the day and to roam and be active during the night.   Light doesn’t seem to matter.  In the confusion of the mind the time clock within the patient/resident is reversed.  [...]

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THE PENULTIMATE DAY: my wife retires tomorrow

May 10, 2010

Tomorrow (May 11) is my wife’s birthday and the day on which she retires from full-time employment.  She will continue as a consultant for her company, Benchmark Assisted Living, the largest provider of Senior Living in New England.  It is not the first employer she has had in the last forty years, but it certainly [...]

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DEMENTIA: severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.*

December 12, 2009

The use of the word dementia is often wrong, based upon lack of good education about the dreaded disease. I have heard people refer to patients (often loved ones) suffering from dementia as “crazy, out of their minds, or berserk.” These inappropriate and unfortunate words are simply products of ignorance and are demeaning to many [...]

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