Summer is the time when many children spend time with their grandparents. It is a time when, if a grandparent has Alzheimer’s, children will become aware of cognitive changes and have many questions. One way Read More…
Archive for June, 2015
Remembering Our Fathers
Jonathan Kozol wrote a reflection about his father in Saturday’s Boston Globe that is well worth the read. He describes the steady losses that Alzheimer’s disease took on his father, a renowned neuropsychiatrist. Any of us who have watched a parent decline with a dementing disease will identify with Read More…
Complexities of Health Care Proxies Part II
Congratulations if you have designated a health care proxy. But don’t think that you are finished with the difficult work of end of life planning.
The Theoretical Versus The Actual
Most of us will sign health care proxies while we are healthy. We don’t have Read More…
The Complexities of Health Care Proxies – Part I
There is a push to encourage everyone to sign a health care proxy. For good reason. Medicine is increasingly able to prolong life, but not always quality life. Over treatment and under treatment concerns Read More…
