Tag: alzheimer’s

  • Older Adult Intimacy

    Namaste With over a decade of going into geriatric homes to provide therapy I have seen that it holds true that while jokes are a frequent occurrence in our day-to-day activities, little time or attention is devoted to sexuality, and more so as it pertains to elders. The reality is that sexuality is a core…

  • Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alzheimer’s is considered an attack on the hippocampus in the brain, thus the neurons that make new memories and retrieve old one become entangled resulting in impairment in memory, cognition, and behaviour characteristics. It can lead to dementia and death, and is prevalent in the elderly from age 60 and beyond, but more so in…

  • Masaje Storie

    Namaste The Spring issue of the International Therapist (journal of the FHT) carries an article about storytelling during massage being an effective tool for reaching and bonding with children. I too can recall drawing shapes on one of my friends back in Primary School. She so enjoyed it that she had tokens to offer in…

  • Rosebush

    Namaste After weeks of nods and smiles and thank you and I love you, my Chinese friend has decided on conversation again. My last visit found him in bed sleeping near lunchtime. I learnt from the Nurses and some of the residents that he was up all night. He did a tour of the place,…

  • Spondylosis Encounter

    Namaste I finally checked the meaning of the word. Spondylosis. I had two clients in five day who told me that their Doctor suggested that that was their condition. Does anyone know why it is that Doctors are allowed to speak Greek and Latin to the English-speaking population? The Bureau of Standards dictates that importers…

  • Mr. Natty

    Namaste I was preparing to go and visit an old friend on Sunday afternoon when Sandra, a Massage Therapist from Tobago, sent me a text message. Her text asked whether I knew that Nathaniel (aka Mr. Natty) of Lambeau had died on Saturday (April 13). My stomach lurched. I immediately went into denial. Nathaniel showed…

  • Inappropriate Touching

    Namaste I sat astride a poof doing massage on the leg of one of my elderly friends. Her heel was resting on the poof and her dress drawn up over her knee. When I had arrived earlier, she was lounging in her chair and eagerly got up and came to the gate to greet me.…