Archives for Alzheimer’s Disease

Quality of Life

Palliative Care is about Quality of Life which can take many forms. There is a Case Study in this website about a gentleman with Alzheimer’s Disease. His attendance at a Senior Day Program is a good example.  He became able to communicate positive emotions and creative skills even though his disease process was very “terminal.”  How…Maybe just through Unconditional Love ? (Left brain=intellectual and Right brain = intuitive?)
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Categories: Alzheimer’s Disease, Recent Posts, and Uncategorized.

Safe Passage

What is meant by “Death As a Safe Passage?” It  can be viewed in 3 Phases. Phase One – The Love Movement (“Using Death as an Adviser” – a quote from a Carlos Castaneda book.) Phase Two – Prolonged Suffering Versus Supportive Caring (“Whose Life Is It,  Anyway?”) Phase Three – Relax, Breathe, and Let Go (“Deathing” or “The Art of Dying”) Please follow a more detailed description under Phases of Death.  
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Categories: Alzheimer’s Disease, Definition of Death, Recent Posts, and Uncategorized.