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Ted, FIRSTLY: Yes, YOU IS DA KING. Secondly, I accidently hit that icon from my iPhone when I first came on AC on a different thread. A little box came up that read: "Thank you! We will look into this":) or something. I felt bad. Since then, I am quite numb, especially after the "HB POO CHRONICLES"--:((( Miss her:( Thirdly: Why, Thank You, rip. I didn't think you cared:) Sure missed you and worried about you when you were quiet. Fourthly: Well, I've said fuck and shit and all sorts of stuff to offend people and no one has flagged me YET, so what could be inappropriate? I think it's up to the READER, and actually, wouldn't that be a PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE action, instead of telling someone--"Hey, I didn't like what you said?" We are pro-active individuals here, and if you don't like what someone said, maybe you can say it outright, or say it softly, if that is your style; or not say it and beat around the bush if that is your style, and tattle to the admin, if that is really your style--and if it is, you can kiss my fat ass, chicken shit.
Maybe the webmasters are just waiting for those little flags to pop up so they know when to share great laugh? After this long I think they might appreciate us. Kind of like the little imp child... you just gotta love them despite their behavior
You too San Diego - Kirkland cop out. Wishing you were still here. Redhook & the wineries ...
Like the police. The eldercare police. Did you fart, m'am? I'm gonna have to give you a ticket. And what about all that toilet paper you're using or hoarding, or where the hell is it, M'am? Duane, get the cuffs, bring em over here. We got someone playing in their pants again. Oh, Lordy, me. We got fines coming out the ying yang over here, Duane. All sorts a schitt coming out the yingyang, as a matter of fact. ooooweeee!
You guys are a riot. I'm not getting my work done because I keep checking the computer to see what you guys post next. Thanks for the laughs today........always needed
Hey crew, I went to cnn, scrolled down to health and clicked on Alz's... I even posted it on my fb page, perhaps a few friends will begin to understand what we caregivers go thru! Ya'll post it on yours too!!!
there's a question on the right side of the page here: What is the best way to interview substitute caregivers?
The only answers I can come up with are jokes:
let them in to sit in the living room and then let mom come out naked from the waist down holding a loaded depends to show her what she made just like she did to you yesterday. judge caregiver reaction and then proceed to next step.
I put the boat back for the new guys. That's the boat we keep referring to...... OR it's the boat on FaceBoat... OR it's the Same Boat; the boat we're all in. Or it's whatever you want it to be when you need to *think* your way into another place before you go insane. Boat! lovbob
Report: 15 million caring for people with dementia Far more people than previously believed are providing billions of hours of unpaid care for Alzheimer's patients, highlighting the growing...
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WASHINGTON — Far more people than previously believed are providing billions of hours of unpaid care for Alzheimer's patients, highlighting the growing impact of a graying population.
Nearly 15 million caregivers — most of them family members but also friends — provide care for people with dementia, says a report being released Tuesday by the Alzheimer's Association.
An estimated 5.4 million Americans have the mind-destroying disease. That it takes so many more people to care for them reflects the burden of an illness that not only robs its sufferers of the ability to do the simplest activities of daily life — but that patients can survive in that increasingly incapacitated state for years, even a decade or two.
"It's too much of a job for any one person," said Dr. William Thies of the Alzheimer's Association. "Even Superman can't do it."
Those caregivers provide 17 billion hours of unpaid care, valued at more than $202 billion. Previously, experts had used a count about a decade ago to estimate that about 10 million caregivers provided 8.5 billion hours of unpaid care for Alzheimer's patients.
Moreover, the time and stress of caring for an Alzheimer's patient takes a physical toll, translating into nearly $8 billion worth of extra health-care costs for caregivers, the report says.
Despite all the behind-the-scenes unpaid care, health and nursing-home expenditures for dementia patients will reach $183 billion this year, much of it paid by Medicare and Medicaid, the report says.
Thanks Ted. I didn't go to Woodstock. hitchhiked to Atlanta a few weeks before and a lot of the same acts that were in Atlanta were up at Woodstock. I suffered enough at Atlanta with washing in the river, too many people, and we had great weather, got in free, great memories.. ok I remember some of it... I remember that Canned Heat was playing Up the Country when we got there late in the night the first day I think it was. Still one of my fav o rite tunes. when Woodstock happened I was all: whew.. dodged a bullet with that one. Those folks were Miserable in all that rain. not to mention the bad Brown Acid. lovbob
OOps! Sorry, what i was trying to get at was that the woodstock generation are the ones getting alzhiemers or something to that effect. Didn't mean you, my Captain!
No No... didn't take it that way at all! and you're absolutely right that yes, we are somewhat of a vanguard of 'mouthy' caregivers as I am pretty sure most of our forbears suffered in silence.
How did I ever survive without you guys??? I have been in a "poor me, poor me, pour me a drink" mood today. Haven't had a drink in 26 years , and won't start now, but I do think about it from time to time.....So after getting caught up on posts all I can do now is set here with a idiot grin on my face, an occasional chuckle, and still look like I had that drink.... Rip, you couldn't have tagged the boat by a better name... thank you for that great laugh out loud moment... Christina loved the verbal surprise at the end of your post, I was laughing so hard. Ted, you are our king, like it or not. Just add that to your duties that get on your nerves, and know that we cherish you. So happy to see you are feeling better you ol' bi-polar king you..... And please, I forgot who wrote it, but don't be upset that we are having such a good time with the piss and applesauce thing. Just consider how frayed we are, You are dealing with "unruly children" here that can't wait for something to laugh about. Apparently we all have a twisted sense of humor or we would all be at a remote place called Eldertown, and drinking cool aid, when Bobbie said for us too...Oh and we would be arguing about who got the banana coolaid and who got the applesauce ... One of these days we are all going on a retreat (it will defiantly have to be deep in the woods somewhere) and get to have a reunion. We will all be so tore down by then we will look like the ones we have been caring for....OMG, the visuals are starting to feel like the "olden days" on a bad trip....
Love you all so much, and for the new ones, we hope you stay around and join in what ever it is we do here.
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Now your running a Ship of Fools!
I can't wait for April 1st!
start thinking now gang ...
Secondly, I accidently hit that icon from my iPhone when I first came on AC on a different thread. A little box came up that read: "Thank you! We will look into this":) or something. I felt bad. Since then, I am quite numb, especially after the "HB POO CHRONICLES"--:((( Miss her:(
Thirdly: Why, Thank You, rip. I didn't think you cared:) Sure missed you and worried about you when you were quiet.
Fourthly: Well, I've said fuck and shit and all sorts of stuff to offend people and no one has flagged me YET, so what could be inappropriate? I think it's up to the READER, and actually, wouldn't that be a PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE action, instead of telling someone--"Hey, I didn't like what you said?"
We are pro-active individuals here, and if you don't like what someone said, maybe you can say it outright, or say it softly, if that is your style; or not say it and beat around the bush if that is your style, and tattle to the admin, if that is really your style--and if it is, you can kiss my fat ass, chicken shit.
After this long I think they might appreciate us. Kind of like the little imp child... you just gotta love them despite their behavior
You too San Diego - Kirkland cop out. Wishing you were still here. Redhook & the wineries ...
oh boy!! ship of fools!! love the little hats........
thas right crew! you all are angels!!!
lovbob
Bitch angel, Can you READ ME?
I'm in someone's farting face,
I'd rather be in outer space...
Duane, get the cuffs, bring em over here. We got someone playing in their pants again. Oh, Lordy, me. We got fines coming out the ying yang over here, Duane. All sorts a schitt coming out the yingyang, as a matter of fact. ooooweeee!
Ya'll post it on yours too!!!
WHOO HOO!!!!!! BOAT!
(to the boat, to the boat, to the boat boat boat (WTOverture)
OK--I have to leave now and do laundry, take a walk, go to chiropractor, etc. Have a really great day, Everyone!!!
Love and Hugs,
christina
What is the best way to interview substitute caregivers?
The only answers I can come up with are jokes:
let them in to sit in the living room and then let mom come out naked from the waist down holding a loaded depends to show her what she made just like she did to you yesterday.
judge caregiver reaction and then proceed to next step.
anybody else?
lovbob
Measure her gag reflex when she discovered mom threw a loaded depends into wash cycle of THE CAREGIVERS laundry.
But here's a sure-fire way to know whether she's a good paid caregiver;
Ask if you can call her Chaquita.
OR it's the boat on FaceBoat...
OR it's the Same Boat; the boat we're all in.
Or it's whatever you want it to be when you need to *think* your way into another place before you go insane.
Boat!
lovbob
Far more people than previously believed are providing billions of hours of unpaid care for Alzheimer's patients, highlighting the growing...
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WASHINGTON — Far more people than previously believed are providing billions of hours of unpaid care for Alzheimer's patients, highlighting the growing impact of a graying population.
Nearly 15 million caregivers — most of them family members but also friends — provide care for people with dementia, says a report being released Tuesday by the Alzheimer's Association.
An estimated 5.4 million Americans have the mind-destroying disease. That it takes so many more people to care for them reflects the burden of an illness that not only robs its sufferers of the ability to do the simplest activities of daily life — but that patients can survive in that increasingly incapacitated state for years, even a decade or two.
"It's too much of a job for any one person," said Dr. William Thies of the Alzheimer's Association. "Even Superman can't do it."
Those caregivers provide 17 billion hours of unpaid care, valued at more than $202 billion. Previously, experts had used a count about a decade ago to estimate that about 10 million caregivers provided 8.5 billion hours of unpaid care for Alzheimer's patients.
Moreover, the time and stress of caring for an Alzheimer's patient takes a physical toll, translating into nearly $8 billion worth of extra health-care costs for caregivers, the report says.
Despite all the behind-the-scenes unpaid care, health and nursing-home expenditures for dementia patients will reach $183 billion this year, much of it paid by Medicare and Medicaid, the report says.
"It's too much of a job for any one person," said Dr. William Thies of the Alzheimer's Association. "Even Superman can't do it."
Bobbie has been saying this all along.
At Woodstock we were half a million strong....
now look.
We are 15 million.
Love your Woodstock angle, Bobbie! Especially since most of us are from that era & remember our folks giving us a different load of crap back then.
"If you remember Woodstock, you weren't there"?
I'm sure that applies to all this somehow but I can't remember how.
I didn't go to Woodstock. hitchhiked to Atlanta a few weeks before and a lot of the same acts that were in Atlanta were up at Woodstock. I suffered enough at Atlanta with washing in the river, too many people, and we had great weather, got in free, great memories.. ok I remember some of it... I remember that Canned Heat was playing Up the Country when we got there late in the night the first day I think it was.
Still one of my fav o rite tunes.
when Woodstock happened I was all: whew.. dodged a bullet with that one. Those folks were Miserable in all that rain.
not to mention the bad Brown Acid.
lovbob
and you're absolutely right that yes, we are somewhat of a vanguard of 'mouthy' caregivers as I am pretty sure most of our forbears suffered in silence.
pour me a drink" mood today. Haven't had a drink in 26 years , and won't start now, but I do think about it from time to time.....So after getting caught up on posts all I can do now is set here with a idiot grin on my face, an occasional chuckle, and still look like I had that drink....
Rip, you couldn't have tagged the boat by a better name... thank you for that great laugh out loud moment...
Christina loved the verbal surprise at the end of your post, I was laughing so hard.
Ted, you are our king, like it or not. Just add that to your duties that get on your nerves, and know that we cherish you. So happy to see you are feeling better you ol' bi-polar king you.....
And please, I forgot who wrote it, but don't be upset that we are having such a good time with the piss and applesauce thing. Just consider how frayed we are, You are dealing with "unruly children" here that can't wait for something to laugh about.
Apparently we all have a twisted sense of humor or we would all be at a remote place called Eldertown, and drinking cool aid, when Bobbie said for us too...Oh and we would be arguing about who got the banana coolaid and who got the applesauce ...
One of these days we are all going on a retreat (it will defiantly have to be deep in the woods somewhere) and get to have a reunion. We will all be so tore down by then we will look like the ones we have been caring for....OMG, the visuals are starting to feel like the "olden days" on a bad trip....
Love you all so much, and for the new ones, we hope you stay around and join in what ever it is we do here.