The problems with parenting parents with dementia and Alzheimer’s are similar to parenting adult children with seizure disorders. Decisions about health, safety and freedom often collide.
As most of you are aware, for several years now I have been writing about Relationships for the Providence Journal on the first Sunday of each month. My column appears on the Op-Ed page. This month, I wrote about family relationships with regard to caregivers. Rita Watson, Privacy Paranoia: Dementia and Seizures (All columns for the Providence Journal are listed under Relationship Columns on this site.)
Here are links and more resources that might be helpful to you.
SEIZURES:
Young people with seizures: Seizures and teens
Full information about post-traumatic epilepsy and seizures Our soldiers
Not all seizures are epileptic, some are called Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures PNES brochure
DEMENTIA
With regard to Alzheimer’s and dementia — Here is a stress checklist: Stress check
Living with Alzheimer’s — An overview
A video from WebMD — you may have to tolerate the commercial, but once you get past it, there is useful information. Caregiving insights
This week, I will reprint the full article with additional links including a link to a discussion on seizures and driving by Kimford Meador, MD, and Attorney Michael Clark quoted in the Projo.com article.
Copyright 2009 Rita Watson