by KathyKastner | Jun 11, 2016 | Blog, Dementia
Dementia: Communication, hard-to-manage behaviours and safety A much needed re-framing of Dementia from Alberta Health Services clinical nurse specialists, Jennette Coats and Loralee Fox, who embrace care and caring for those with ‘broken brains’. I sat in on their...
by KathyKastner | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog, Dementia
Tina’s story of Alzheimer’s: love and understanding I was fortunate enough to walk through a journey of Alzheimer’s by my father-in-law’s side. Together we mastered the mysteries, the fears and the utter atrocity that the disease brings and we also...
by KathyKastner | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, Inspiration, Medical Decisions
Long distance caregiving When a parent becomes very ill, living far away is stressful. Growing up in Lebanon, Nada studied and worked in the US, before migrating to Canada – where she set about restarting her career. Always, in the back of her mind, was the need to...