Posted 6-12-20 Happy Friday, you all! I hope you have a peach weekend after sliding through this Friday with flying colors. 🙂 I had a nifty piece on a different topic in the chute for you today, but today’s date distracted me and reminded me of a key Caregiving 101 tip, so the other piece…
Author: Mark Applegate
Christian, husband, and dad...and a workplace chiropractic geek and cornbread chef on the side. I am also happily the Director of Systems Alignment for the SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging.
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 91: Of Phobias, Real and Counterfeit
Posted 6-11-20 It is already Thursday? You have to be kidding me??? Ok, well, off we go with that in mind. I just have 2 more pieces until the weekend to use to tilt against a real windmill. Today I will break out my jousting pen and fight something that scares the dickens out of…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 90: 6/10/90 and Life’s Vicissitudes
Posted on what would have been my 30 year anniversary…keep reading 😉 Hi all. I have mentioned many times how much I am amazed by numbers. Today is the quintessential proof. The New England OCD Institute has this to say about people who dig numbers perhaps just a little more than I do: “Compulsive counting…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 89: Ten Things You Can Learn About Dementia From a Hurricane
Posted 6/9/20 Howdy all! Another day in paradise here. Hope the same for you, except that it be true. In reality, all could be much worse. I love my family. I love my job. Mom’s health, while by any definition is grave, is manageable and she is still seemingly happy. Things could be much, much…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 88: Special Place in Hell
Posted 6-8-20 Monday has arrived!!!! Are we havin’ fun yet? Me neither too. 🙂 One of the many rewarding parts of my job at SeniorAge relates to fraud protection and its sister job role in disaster preparedness. At the end of last week that part of my job was important, yet again. Amazingly, whenever there…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 85: Confessions of a Cardinal Fan
Posted 6/5/20 Hi all! Happy Friday…uhhh….errr….yes, Friday to every one of you. It is still hard to figure out what day it is these days, especially having added a partial day Saturday to my work schedule. I am a creature of habit and, despite the fact that my values statement at work states that I…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 84: Mom, the Observant
Posted 6/4/20 Are you an observant person? I mean, do you actively see or passively see what is around you? Said differently, can you see emotions such as pain, joy, and the like before words are ever spoken? Some might call this emotional intelligence, although there may yet be more to it than even that….
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 83: Don’t Cut the Arts
Posted 6/3/20 Humppppp Daaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy! Have a happy one, friends! Today will be a short read, but may take a little bit more time to process. Also let me warn you that the content is emotional in a different way than normal. Viewer discretion and a box of tissues are strongly recommended. Let me start with…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 82: Cabin Fever Much?
Posted on local election day, 6/2/20 Howdy all! Happy Taco Tuesday!! And a happy day 82 of not getting to visit our loved ones in the nursing home/assisted living facility (hence Shawshank Day #s). I understand their rationale, mind you. I don’t fault them for it at all, given that at least a quarter of…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 81: Balance of Probability
Posted 6/1/20 “How often have I said to you that, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” – Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in the well-known legal text “The Sign of Four“. https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/2-500-6576?__lrTS=20180226150603107&transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true&bhcp=1 Hi all! I trust you had a nice vacation?! Oh wait, that was me. 🙂 I…