For the family
An overview for family members who notice memory or clarity changes in someone they love: what to watch, what to say, and what to bring to the doctor.
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How to Raise Memory Concerns Kindly
Most people believe the kind thing to do is to say nothing. That if you mention the forgetting, you will hurt them, and so the loving choice is to let it pass. I believed that for a long time. All those years at a hospital pharmacy counter taught me otherwise. Silence is not kind. Silence…
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When It Is Your Spouse or Parent
A woman named Ruth came up to me at the senior centre on Elm Street last Tuesday, after the brown-bag table had cleared, and asked the question I hear more than any other. “He forgot his own grandson’s name. Does that mean it is starting?” Her husband was sitting in the lobby waiting, humming to…