Our July Caregiver of the Month was Tasha J!
Home Care Plus would like to recognize Tasha J. as our July Caregiver of the Month. Tasha comes to us with extensive experience working in the home care industry. She is already becoming a favorite of our clients, and they look forward to seeing her come to spend time with them.
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Things To Do Around Town
There is a lot to do around town this month! Mark your calendars for these fun events:
Join fellow music and shag lovers for two fun-filled days of beach music and dancing! In its 8th year, this festival features music by the Carolina Breeze Band, Shrimp City Slim, Jim Quick & Coastline, the Fantastic Shakers and other great bands.
This is the 14th annual 5k in support of the ARK, a community outreach program helping families struggling to care for loved ones with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. Proceeds from the race help fund this program.
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Recommended Reading
Keeper: One House, Three Generations and a Journey Into Alzheimer's by Andrea Gillies
Overview:
Five years ago, Andrea Gillies- writer, wife, and mother of three-seeing that her husband's parents were struggling to cope, invited them to move in. She and her newly extended family relocated to a big Victorian house on a remote, windswept peninsula in the far north of Scotland, leaving behind their friends and all that was familiar; hoping to find a new life, and new inspiration for work.
Her mother-in-law Nancy was in the middle stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and Keeper charts her journey into dementia, its impact on her personality and her family, and the author's researches into what dementia is. As the grip of her disease tightens, Nancy's grasp on everything we think of as ordinary unravels before our eyes. Diary entries and accounts of conversations with Nancy track the slow unravelling. The journey is marked by frustration, isolation, exhaustion, and unexpected black comedy. For the author, who knew little about dementia at the outset, the learning curve was steeper than she could have imagined. The most pernicious quality of Alzheimer's, Gillies suggests, is that the loss of memory is, in effect, the loss of one's self, and Alzheimer's, because it robs us of our intrinsic self-knowledge, our ability to connect with others, and our capacity for self-expression, is perhaps the most terrible and most dehumanizing illness. Moreover, as Gillies reminds us, the effects of Alzheimer's are far-reaching, impacting the lives of caregivers and their loved ones in every way imaginable.
Keeper is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss"-an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.
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