Elder Care Guide and Information

Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease tends to focus on it’s medical aspects. If you have a loved one suffering from it, understanding Alzheimer’s disease also means learning how to cope with the loss of the person you once knew.

While surfing the internet just now, I happened upon a powerful, dignified and beautifully sensitive information that literally improved my understanding of Alzheimer’s by leaps and bounds.

Memory Bridge recently completed a groundbreaking documentary about communicating with those suffering with Alzheimer’s and related diseases. This remarkable film reveals the largely unrecognized capacity of people with Alzheimer’s and to maintain emotionally meaningful relationships.

Doubt that someone in the latter stages of the disease can communicate with you? Watch Naomi Feil’s breakthrough with an 87 year old African-American women who has been non-communicative for years. This short clip is particularly powerful proof that those whose minds are being stolen by Alzheimer’s are still “in there” and can still be reached meaningfully. That 2 minute, 34 second piece will shift your belief about the humanity that remains in those with Alzheimer’s.

If you know someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia, please, please, please look at this documentary. If will forever change your understanding of the disease and those who have it.

The film is being aired on PBS stations across the country this fall.

Memory bridge is offering a CD of the documentary for $34.95.

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