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Dementia Man – The Lived Experience
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Lori La Bey talks with Sam Simon and his wife, Susan, who is his Care Partner, or what they like to call his Cognitive Navigator.
Samuel A. Simon is the author, playwright, and performer of the one-man play, Dementia Man: An Existential Journey. Earlier in his life, he was a national figure in the American consumer movement, as one of the first lawyers for Ralph Nader, and made many media appearances, including Face the Nation, The Phil Donahue Show, all major TV network news shows,...
Alzheimer
An Essay Of A Sister’s Journey With Dementia
I have no words of wisdom to comfort those whose loved one has Alzheimer’s. Of all the diseases, there is none more obscene: It’s the only disease that, as it progresses, the person with the disease suffers progressively less and less, and the loved ones suffer more until their suffering becomes almost too great to endure.
Many relatives of the Alzheimer’s patient don’t visit them. It might be just too painful for them to witness the decline of the once-disease-free and functioning person. What I’ve witnessed is these patients sitting and staring at the walls or at staff...
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