Patient's Care

When Martha started to have Alzheimer's symptoms in 2004 (stage 1), I knew I had to determine how to handle each symptom as it occurred. After a lot of thought and research; I decided that I would treat each individual symptom by the following guideline:

How would I want to be treated and cared for if I had this Alzheimer's symptom?

This made my care for Martha much simpler and each decision I made would always be a compassionate one. However, as time progressed, alterations had to be made to how I cared for her. Any decision that was made would always be the absolute best for Martha. I wanted to share my experience with other caregivers, thus my guidelines were developed.

The guidelines on my website were written in hopes to help other caregivers, to not only care for the patient, but to understand them, show some compassion, use a little common sense and ask themselves; "What would I want someone to do for me?"

It's so simple…