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Authorities are awaiting necropsy results to determine how the couple’s kelpie mix died. Starvation could have been a cause of death but ofcls are still unsure, Phipps said, noting that dogs do not get sick from hantavirus. Zinna underwent a procedure on Feb 9, which could explain why the dog was in a crate…. The couple’s other 2 dogs were found alive & had been able to go in & out of the house through an open door, authorities said.
#GeneHackman #alzheimers #ElderCare
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/us/gene-hackman-wife-death-investigation/index.html
My grandfather was a doctor & my grandmother was a nurse, so perhaps there was a false sense of security in that knowledge. Bottom line, memory affecting disease can seriously impact survival.
My partner was just commenting on how the set up for Librewolf starts out with all security measures on straight out of the gate and how fantastic it is for people who are dealing with elderly parents who maybe aren't as tech savvy or informed. The trouble shooting you are left with when they have any issue is minimal from that point, which based on my own experience is sometimes days of work trying to track down what exactly happened, with a parent who wasn't always honest about what went down. Keep your elders safe! Librewolf is great!
With how quickly norovirus ripped through father-in-law's household (unspouse is now sick, despite precautions), gotta rethink current preps. Biggest pain point* is FIL himself; cognitive decline means mask wearing and hand-washing is a hit/miss. How to keep us all safe if bird flu becomes a human issue too? #ElderCare #CognitiveDecline
*not meaning Pain In The Arse, though we can all be that too 
If you have an older person in your life, and you think you might need to arrange that you have power of attorney of their finances at some point: don't wait too long to put that into place.
It's significantly more complicated to arrange that kind of thing when the person is frail and has difficulty walking.
Rather do it before it becomes completely necessary, than wait until it's difficult to arrange.
I really need to find a job in Portugal. What can a partially-disabled trans guy do over there? #help #USAsucks #2dAnimation #DataEntry #ElderCare
Judge refuses to issue injunction blocking nursing home staff mandates
>>In his decision siding with the federal government, United States District Judge Leonard T. Strand stated that “with regard to nearly every aspect of the final rule, the plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate that a preliminary injunction is necessary in order to preserve the status quo and prevent irreparable harm.”<<
#OklahomaVoice #ElderCare #Nursing
https://oklahomavoice.com/2025/01/16/judge-refuses-to-issue-injunction-blocking-nursing-home-staff-mandates/
Honoring a beloved mentor with Alzheimer's
When Clay Morton was a student at the University of Arkansas, he was greatly inspired by his geology professor, Dr. Walt Manger, who became a mentor and a guiding light as Morton pursued a career as a high school science teacher. Now, years later, after Manger was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Morton is striving to preserve as much of his former professor's brilliance as possible.
Holiday Fun Run
Pedestrian safety Rules
Grandma exemption
#Haiku #Poetry #ElderCare #UAa #Canada #Holiday #Celebration #Humour #Meme #Wednesday #Today
Bluetooth hearing aids for our elderly parents? 
Oh great, now I have to explain all of the foibles of Bluetooth pairing issues to a 96-year old who retired before the PC revolution arrived at his career.
When my mother broke her back recently she spent ten days in the ER before going to rehab.
This is because she found herself trapped in a bureaucratic limbo regarding standard of care. She was not ill enough to go into hospital, and not well enough to be released back to independent living.
The interaction between outfits like UHC and BCBS et merde and the eldercare industrial complex (hospitals, rehab facilities, insurance and pension fund companies) which is entirely made up of the sort of people who are comfortable farming basic human necessities for money.
Creates bureaucratic obstacles to appropriate care all along the way; usually under a claim of making it more efficient and safer.
It is specifically designed to channel patients into lucrative revenue opportunities at the expense of durable health care that actually fixes them or at least accomodates their needs.
My 80-year-old parents are moving out of their house and into a retirement home this week. It is stressful AF. Please send good vibes. #SandwichGeneration #ElderCare #seniors
@raye Wishing you all well. #ElderCare is more labor intensive than many know. It can be hard psychologically, emotionally, and physically, on all involved.
We are starting to set-up the specific financial situation for Mom's care and how we protect a whole bunch of her assets while legally making them not her assets. While sibling and I worked out various ways and means of financial compensation, that is slowly getting formalized. For now, my care gets a day rate but comes to me as a gift from Mom so I don't have to worry about taxes on it. When it evolves to sibling and I being contracted carers for Mom, that will change.
Sibling is a touch OCD and it makes them really into doing this stuff because they'd have to go over every detail anyway if someone else did it. Mom's having some skin issues this week but we got it assessed and sibling was already treating it with something that was working when the NP saw them today.
I really want the trip in December to work out, and then in 2025, I want to try to visit every 4-5 weeks, down from every 6-8. Mom's changes are increasing in speed and intensity.
The Golden Rule: Lessons in Living From a Doctor of Ageing by Lucy Pollock, 2024
What will make us happy? What are we frightened of, and what might allay those fears? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age? This book contains lessons Lucy Pollock has learned from thirty years of working with older people and those close to them.
![Gift this wise, compassionate essential guide to ageing happily from Dr Lucy Pollock. The Golden Rule is part manifesto for better integration and appreciation between generations, and part reflection on a career spent looking after our elders, [. . .] with good humour, sanity, wisdom and quite a few jokes' The Times'From the first pages, the impression you have is how much you’d want Pollock as your medical practitioner. . . this warm and compassionate book is part reflection, part rallying cry to set in place a better society for older people' Daily Mail'Beautiful and wise, filled with characters I know living through situations I recognise, filtered through the kindness of thoughtful storytelling'
In a society obsessed with staying young, how can we age with confidence?Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age.
What will make us happy? It looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets, and problems that require a different sort of medicine. Lucy explains what she has been taught about loss, about impossible families, about becoming older without children, and the important things she has learned about sexuality, race, love and living with uncertainty.
The Golden Rule sets out guiding principles we can all try to live by, in the hope that together we can bring about positive change, and all benefit from a kinder, more compassionate society.
Here is how we may meet our futures with optimism and confidence.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/468/498/044/635/571/original/ff48ba4587ed8a47.jpg "Gift this wise, compassionate essential guide to ageing happily from Dr Lucy Pollock. The Golden Rule is part manifesto for better integration and appreciation between generations, and part reflection on a career spent looking after our elders, [. . .] with good humour, sanity, wisdom and quite a few jokes' The Times'From the first pages, the impression you have is how much you’d want Pollock as your medical practitioner. . . this warm and compassionate book is part reflection, part rallying cry to set in place a better society for older people' Daily Mail'Beautiful and wise, filled with characters I know living through situations I recognise, filtered through the kindness of thoughtful storytelling'
In a society obsessed with staying young, how can we age with confidence?Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age.
What will make us happy? It looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets, and problems that require a different sort of medicine. Lucy explains what she has been taught about loss, about impossible families, about becoming older without children, and the important things she has learned about sexuality, race, love and living with uncertainty.
The Golden Rule sets out guiding principles we can all try to live by, in the hope that together we can bring about positive change, and all benefit from a kinder, more compassionate society.
Here is how we may meet our futures with optimism and confidence.")
Skip this thread if you don't want to read today's horrifyingly amusing chapter of "remote IT support for elderly parents." If you're younger than I am, just remember that unless your parents have a tech-friendly attitude now and have displayed the ability to figure out tech stuff on their own, some day this may be you trying to help your parents over the phone from a different state.
#elderCare #sandwichGeneration #techSupport
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Five days into my stay and my high-altitude dehydration is messing with me. That's not bad, I have had it happen sooner during visits before. Between wind outdoors and the central heating inside, there's no break in moisture loss at this time of year. Had to switch back to petroleum-based Chapstick because beeswax-based lip balm isn't strong enough. Backs of my hands and calves are starting to get itchy. And there was one attention-getting leg cramp last night.
I'm already waking up regularly in the night with caregiver brain, it won't be an issue to go to the bathroom when that happens, so I am going to liquid load in the evening when I have the chance, just like I do in the mornings.
I will have caregivers in today thru Saturday, so I will get some chunks in the day when my attention can be off Mom, but the challenge there is plain old remembering to drink in that interval.
Hamilton was excellent, and you could hear Mom faintly singing along with her favorite bits behind her mask. Very enthusiastic audience. Got Mom into the bathroom both before and after the show without being stuck in lines, amazing!
The dinner out was skipped when sibling turned to me and said the whole drive home would be in the dark if we stayed in Denver along with us getting back to the house at bedtime, what had they been thinking? We all agreed we could wait to get home to eat, and enjoyed a gorgeous sunset drive home.
The thing we marvel at is what continues to energize and stimulate Mom is being in public and the arts. The distance and inward turning that comes with Alzheimer’s really retreats for a while. This gives me confidence for the December trip.
