KidCo Magnetic Lock-Starter Set (Model S3362),

This ingenious lock keeps cabinets and drawers locked tight and guards against pinched fingers! It works on almost all styles of cabinets and drawers, even those where you can't use a standard latch! To open, simply place the special magnetic key on the face of the door or drawer and the lock stays open until the key is removed. Locks can be temporarily shut off.  Mounts with special adhesive tape. (some installations may require use of included screws).

.This latch must be mounted upright in order to work properly - it can not be mounted on its side or upside down. This kit includes 2 locks and one magnetic key

Automatic Door Closer {small}

Product ID: 326

The Automatic Door Closer is small but strong! It will close a door up to 150 lbs. and works for all interior doors, including the basement! Spring-loaded with an adjustable tension feature, it mounts on any door jam with only a screwdriver. Works on wood or metal doors. Easy installation.

Clearview Stove Knob Covers

Stove knobs are a real temptation for Alzheimer patients. These ultra-secure knob covers — hinged, locking covers allow you instant access for cooking. Locks with an audible "click" so you know the latch is secured. Durable, heat resistant, non-adhesive. Five covers per pack.

Oven Front Lock

"Padlock" your oven door. Put ovens off-limits, with our heat-resistant oven lock! Unlike others, it secures to the front of the door--not the side--so it can be used on ovens in snug spaces. Self-adhering; easy to use.

Understanding the Dementia Experience

Suggested  reading Jennifer Ghent-Fuller's article, "Understanding the Dementia Experience"

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SS Complete List of Compassionate Allowances Conditions

Compassionate Allowances Initial List of Conditions

1
Acute Leukemia
2
Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
3
Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile
4
Alstrom Syndrome
5
Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
6
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
7
Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
8
Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV
9
Ataxia Telangiectasia
10
Batten Disease
11
Bilateral Retinoblastoma
12
Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
13
Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
14
Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
15
Canavan Disease (CD)
16
Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
17
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase
18
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult
19
Cri du Chat Syndrome
20
Degos Disease, Systemic
21
Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
22
Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
23
Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
24
Esophageal Cancer
25
Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile
26
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
27
Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
28
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult
29
Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
30
Gallbladder Cancer
31
Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
32
Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
33
Glutaric Acidemia Type II (Neonatal)
34
Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable
35
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
36
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
37
Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
38
Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
39
Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
40
Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
41
Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
42
Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile
43
Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
44
Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
45
Leigh’s Disease
46
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
47
Liver Cancer
48
Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
49
Maple Syrup Urine Disease
50
Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
51
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
52
Mixed Dementias
53
MPS I, formally known as Hurler Syndrome
54
MPS II, formally known as Hunter Syndrome
55
MPS III, formally known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
56
Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
57
Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
58
Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
59
Niemann-Pick Disease-Type C
60
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
61
Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
62
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
63
Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
64
Pancreatic Cancer
65
Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13)
66
Peritoneal Mesothelioma
67
Pleural Mesothelioma
68
Pompe Disease - Infantile
69
Primary Progressive Aphasia
70
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
71
Rett (RTT) Syndrome
72
Salivary Tumors
73
Sandhoff Disease
74
Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
75
Small Cell Lung Cancer
76
Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
77
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
78
Spinocerebellar Ataxia
79
Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
80
Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
81
Tay Sachs Disease - Infantile Type
82
Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
83
Thyroid Cancer
84
Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
85
Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
86
Walker Warburg Syndrome
87
Wolman Disease
88
Zellweger Syndrome

Social Security checks

Social Security Checks Retire | Bankrate.com

Social Security checks retire
By Jennie L. Phipps · Bankrate.com
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Posted: 4 pm ET

Beginning May 1, Social Security will require all new recipients to get their payments by either direct deposit to a bank account or via a debit card. Recipients who are already receiving Social Security have until May 1, 2013, to convert to one of these electronic delivery systems.

Causes of Memory Loss That Aren't Alzheimer's | Caring.com

Causes of Memory Loss That Aren't Alzheimer's | Caring.com

Memory-loss cause #1: Chronic stress



Why it happens: When the body goes on hyperalert to face a crisis, a series of biochemical changes takes place that fuels the fight-or-flight response system. The chemical cortisol increases in the brain, for example, to mobilize energy and alertness. That's great when a saber-toothed tiger is chasing you. But when tension and anxiety become chronic, as with work or family problems, the system is overloaded with substances that are intended for emergency use only.

Cognitive Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis

Cognitive Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis - Other Rare Causes of Dementia - Other forms of dementia - Dementia - Alzheimer Europe

Other Rare Causes of Dementia
by Clive Ever

There has been a lot of recent research into changes in cognition due to MS and it is now evident that such changes do occur and that they are more common than was previously thought. Cognition is about our abilities in thinking things through and how well our memory works.

Cognition is also about how to focus and to maintain our attention; the way we learn and remember new things; how we think reason and solve problems. It also concerns how we plan and carry out our activities; the way we understand and use language and how well we recognise objects, assemble things together and judge distances.

The brain damage in MS is different to that in e.g. Alzheimer’s type dementia and so the problems shown are different. Although the problems may not amount to full dementia they can cause significant disruption to the lives of patients. In studies of MS patients with and without cognitive dysfunction, those with have been shown to be more significantly impaired with respect to work, sexual and social functioning and basic activities of daily living.

Cognitive Dysfunction is one of the more scary symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.

Cognitive Dysfunction - multiple sclerosis encyclopaedia

Cognitive Dysfunction is one of the more scary symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. It used to be thought that cognitive dysfunction was relatively rare symptom of the disease but it is now understood to be quite a common feature.

Among the reasons that it's frequency was formerly underestimated is that the dysfunction is often mild, cognition is a very complex subject and, in the past, physicians have felt more comfortable denying its existence to their patients. Things have changed over the past few years. Rather than lumping cognitive dysfunction in the same bracket as fatigue and depression, it is now studied on its own. Cognitive evaluation techniques have also improved greatly and now proper studies into cognitive dysfunction in MS are beginning to be done.

Hiring an Overseas Caregiver, proceed with caution

Hiring an Overseas Caregiver to work in the US Page - Nannies and nanny services for 20 years in Canada and the US, OptiMum Childcare and Nannies Ltd.

An American family may legally hire a US citizen, someone who has been lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or someone with a valid work permit.



Eligibility for lawful employment must be verified by the employer using form I-9 form.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/dos/1718.htm

Confabulation: Honest Lying paper on The Alzheimer's Compendium

Confabulation: Honest Lying » Alzheimer's Compendium

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spontaneous confabulation in the Alzheimer’s patient … that is exactly what our loved ones do, more and more, as the disease progresses and they live more and more in the past. And while provoked confabulations are a major annoyance in the early stages — when friends, family, and the medical community take everything our loved ones say at face value, no matter how false we know their statements to be — spontaneous confabulations become a far greater concern in the later stages, because spontaneous confabulations are much more likely to be acted upon by the loved one."



"Approaches that can be used to cope with spontaneous confabulation, and ease the confusion, frustration, and fear for the loved one, can be found in resources such as:



Jennifer Ghent-Fuller’s paper “Understanding the Dementia Experience”



Jolene Brackey’s book, Creating Moments of Joy



Naomi Feil’s “validation therapy”



The Savvy Caregiver training program



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Alzheimer’s



Layers of memories separated in time Photographic double exposures



You are you but also a long dead sister or a half-remembered husband maybe partially a grandkid



Or maybe you are mostly the long dead sister.

She is at home or maybe in another place –Her last home or one from many years ago



She is a child or there are children to be taken care of, One of them may be you



A Kaleidoscope of images from whole lives Jumbled together



~ Anonymous Caregiver

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Steps to Better Bathing

7 Steps to Better Bathing - Introduction

Bathing a person with Alzheimer's or other types of dementia can be a highly stressful activity for the caregiver. It can also be an emotionally demanding experience for the person with Alzheimer's or other types of dementia, who may be especially stressed by fear of running water, discomfort from cold drafty rooms, embarrassment at being seen naked, fear of falling – especially when moving in or out of the tub, or confusion due to memory problems.