There’s probably no conversation in family life that feels harder to start than this one. You’ve been thinking about it for weeks, maybe months. You’ve rehearsed it in your head. And then you sit down across from your parent, or your spouse, or your sibling, and the words just don’t come out the way you…
If you’ve been anywhere near a health news feed lately, you’ve seen the headlines. AI detects Alzheimer’s years early. Machine learning outperforms doctors at reading brain scans. Speech patterns reveal dementia before symptoms appear. It’s a lot, and it’s hard to know what’s real, what’s overhyped, and what any of it actually means if you’re…
Nobody wakes up one morning and just decides. That’s not how this works. It’s slower than that, and a lot messier. It’s months of explaining things away, of telling yourself it’s a bad week, of reorganizing your life a little more each time to cover the gaps. And then something happens, or a few things…
Families searching for memory care in Arvada, Lakewood, or Golden often ask what daily life actually feels like for someone living with dementia. One of the biggest differences people notice in our homes is the presence of our resident dogs. There’s something that happens pretty regularly in our homes that I never get tired of…
I’m going to be honest with you. Watching a parent, or a husband, or a wife change because of dementia is just brutal. There’s no nicer word for it. You keep thinking you’ll get used to it and you don’t, not really. They’re still there — the way they laugh, the stories they repeat, the…
Walk into a memory care home today, and you may notice something interesting. There are many communities today where people of two different generations are living side by side. The Silent Generation and the Baby Boomers. They grew up in different times. And sometimes that shows up in their day-to-day. At Applewood Our House, we…
