My Life With Jim – Page 18 – Dementia Makes A Strange Bedfellow

GPS Apps

August 26, 2019September 16, 2020 Wife of JimResourcesGPS for seniors Life360 locating people Dementia with their phones

Jim worked in a high email, heavily dead-lined position. Even now, years after he retired, he’s still attached to his phone as is his life depends on it. Which has it’s good and bad points. It keeps him engaged. He’s found a video stream that plays old school music and he spends a lot …. Read More

The Diagnosis – Part 1 of Many More Than I Thought There Would Be

August 26, 2019September 28, 2020 Wife of JimProgression ResourcesDementia Diagnosis

I want to be able to tell you that getting a Dementia diagnosis is fast and easy. Part of it is, and then there is a long process of hurry up and wait. We’re in Canada so our health system is both a blessing (free) and a curse (slow). Jim ‘presents’ really well so …. Read More

Traveling with Someone with Undiagnosed Dementia

August 26, 2019September 16, 2020 Wife of JimProgressiontraveling with Dementia

Jim was well into Stage 4 of Dementia when we flew across the country to spend Thanksgiving with my family (October, 2017). We’d already been to see Jim’s family up north early that summer so I wasn’t expecting to have any issues. Apparently, his dependence on routines and familiar surroundings disguised his decline in the …. Read More

In the Beginning

August 25, 2019January 25, 2021 Wife of JimProgressioncoping with Dementia Dementia Care-giving

We’ve been very lucky in that the progression of Jim’s decline has been slow and steady. With only a few little hills and valleys to keep me on my toes. We’d go weeks without incident and then we have three or four days where his memory seemed to have powered down but then he’d …. Read More

Stages of Dementia

August 25, 2019January 25, 2021 Wife of JimProgression Resources3 stage scale for Dementia 7 stage scale for Dementia Dementia Progression Global Deterioration Scale Reisberg Scale

I figure before we go too far into this, that I should explain the measuring tool I’ve been using to track Jim’s decline. This is the scale I use Global Deterioration Scale / Reisberg Scale The most commonly used scale is often referred to simply as GDS, or by its more formal name, the Reisberg …. Read More

Introduction to My Life With Jim

August 24, 2019March 8, 2023 Wife of JimGeneral Progression Resourcescoping with Dementia Dementia Care-giving Dementia for Dummies

Welcome. I have several hopes for creating this blog and using it to talk about how dementia is affecting our life. Dementia has become third person in our relationship. Intellectually, I knew that living with my husband as he declined was going to be tough but emotionally, I had no idea how inside-out our …. Read More

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