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The Cruel Irony of Alzheimer’s Disease
Photo by 50 Watts, via Flickr. By Amy M. Collins, associate editor As I watch my grandmother navigate the murky waters of her Alzheimer’s disease, it continues to surprise me that parts of her brain...
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A Crucial Distinction: Missing Incidents vs. Wandering in People With Dementia
At every stage of dementia, people with the condition are at risk for both missing incidents, in which they are unattended and unable to navigate a safe return to their caregiver, and “wandering,” a...
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Top 10 New AJN Posts of 2012
British Nurse and Baby, via Flickr/jdlasica By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor/blog editor Maybe, who knows, some social media content isn’t really quite as ephemeral as we usually believe. Some of...
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Downsizing with Dementia
Photo by Shawn Henning, via flickr. By Amy M. Collins, editor I’ve blogged before about my grandmother and her dementia, which has long since been staking a claim on her memory. A few years ago I wrote...
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If She Yells ‘Help Me’– Poster Therapy to Convey the Needs, Identity of an...
Joan Melton, MSN, lives in Indiana. Photo by Ann Gordon, via Flickr I am a geriatric nurse practitioner and have also been the daughter to an ill, aging parent. I felt well trained for my professional...
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A Nurse Ethicist’s Analysis of a Recent Nursing Home Sexual Consent Case
By Douglas P. Olsen, PhD, RN, associate professor, Michigan State University College of Nursing in East Lansing, associate editor of Nursing Ethics, and a contributing editor of AJN, where he regularly...
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Watching a Friend Fade Away: A Nurse’s Account of the Progress of Dementia
Illustration by Eric Collins, ecol-art.com. All rights reserved. By Jacob Molyneux, senior editor Alzheimer’s disease and dementia have been in the news. There have been major movies about what’s it’s...
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AJN September Issue: Family Caregivers and Alzheimer’s, Older Adults and...
The September issue of AJN is now live. Here are some articles we’d like to bring to your attention. CE: Original Research: The Experience of Transitioning to a Caregiving Role for a Family Member with...
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Becoming a Family Caregiver
Photo by Judith E. Bell, via Flickr. For me, the saga began six years ago, when I offered to help a family member with some spring cleaning. I knew his place was a mess, but attributed this,...
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