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Critical Dementia Skill #4 Forming a Back-Up Plan

Written by M. Estrade on 27th April 2020 Blog

This is the fourth installment in the Critical Dementia Skills (CDS) series. For more information on the series, start HERE. You can also click on the CDS tags in the blog for more. As a Boy Scout and eventual Eagle Scout, I learned the importance of our motto, “Be Prepared.” As a scout, it felt more like making sure that you had all of the right equipment when hiking or camping. As I matured, it became clear that the equipment is only part of that motto. 

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Critical Dementia Skill #3 Building your Dementia Team

Written by M. Estrade on 20th April 2020 Blog

This is the third installment in the Critical Dementia Skills (CDS) series. For more information on the series, start HERE. You can also click on the CDS tags in the blog for more. Dementia is a large and complex challenge, so you need a large and comprehensive team to support you and your family. This article is an introduction to the core team members we recommend that you recruit for your large team. Later articles will offer in-depth information on each role.

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Critical Dementia Skill #2 Understanding Ambiguous Loss

Written by M. Estrade on 13th April 2020 Blog

This is the second installment in the Critical Dementia Skills (CDS) series. For more information on the series, start HERE. You can also click on the CDS tags in the blog for more. If you, like so many dementia care partners, have thought that you are grieving the loss of a spouse, parent, or friend even though they are still alive, there is a good chance that you are experiencing ‘ambiguous loss.” While this is feeling is not a litmus test as to if you have it,

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Critical Dementia Skill #1 Finding Meaning in Dementia

Written by M. Estrade on 6th April 2020 Blog

This is the first installment in the Critical Dementia Skills (CDS) series. For more information on the series, start HERE. You can also click on the CDS tags in the blog for more. Could we have started the Critical Dementia Skills (CDS) Series with a larger topic? People have pondered the meaning of life for thousands and thousands of years. They’ve also thought about the meaning of suffering for that long. Certainly, people have wondered about the meaning of dementia since it has become a phenomenon in society.

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Replay of February 26, 2020 YouTube Rosary

Written by M. Estrade on 1st March 2020 Blog

  SEEKING FEEDBACK…in this Rosary, (most of the time) I recited the first half of the Our Fathers and Hail Marys so that the listener could say the second half. Please let me know in the YouTube or blog comments what you think. I feel like it allows you to say the prayers as if we are in the same room and not talk over me, and it gives me a breather between prayers.

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New for 2020 – Monthly Online Rosary and Dementia Q&A

Written by M. Estrade on 13th January 2020 Blog

Happy New Year!  I wish you and your family many blessings in 2020. We at The Peace with Dementia Rosary, in an effort to expand “Education, Intentions, Community” of the book’s subtitle, are starting a monthly YouTube live stream with a Rosary and then some Q&A. Question (Q): What is a YouTube “live stream” and what is special about this one? Answer (A): A live stream is a live video via YouTube viewed on your computer or smartphone with internet.

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