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Carol Bradley Bursack, Jul 15, 2010
Over the span of two decades author, columnist and speaker Carol Bradley Bursack cared for a neighbor and six elderly family members. Because of this experience, Bradley Bursack created a portable support group, the book "Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories."
Maybe you could coach your dad if his approach seems too harsh. He does it because he loves her, but it comes across as nagging to her. Few people like the reminders that they may not be as "sharp" as they once were. Is there a way you could talk your dad into trying an alarm type reminder for your mom? That could help with this sticky issue.Carol
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karenkrow
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Jul 15, 2010
thanks for your help will give that a try......I did spend time with the both of them today regarding this situation
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195Austin
My Mom has a container with sections for each day of the week and sets up her meds ahead-she is 91 and does well -I sometimes forget to take mine what I do is mark the bottles with a red line for days and blavk for dinner time and turn over the morning meds after I take them and the same for dinner meds and when I go away I mark on a piece of paper the day of the week and morning and night and check when I have takes them -as Carol said it is probably to way he reminds her that gets her upset esp. if she is starting to have memory problems.
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