Alzheimers Poems - Poems about Alzheimers

Her children thought something about their father was off They did not know what it was Having never thought of dementia or Alzheimer’s before They attempted to tell Mom their concerns She refused to see anything weird in her husband He’s a bit slower, that is all. She had jammed herself in the middle of a bread pan of denial Finally, she...

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His equilibrium was off Unbalanced, unsteady gait Forgetting words for truck and grass His wife refused to see it Ignoring his Alzheimer’s for four years Until her life was endangered by his erratic actions...

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this and that and thus and such hearing, seeing, smell, taste, touch which will old age steal? not much just this and that and thus and such will I know beloved ones... lifelong sweetheart? daughter? sons? thanking those with whom I've dined not sure why they've been so kind in this home but not sure why who will hold me...

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No-one aspires to have Alzheimer’s…it’s a disease we long to defy…. one ailment we hope as we get older…will simply pass us by. But one of the mysteries of life that fluster, frustrate and confuse… Is when it comes to whether or not we get Alzheimer’s…we don’t get to choose. A memory popped into my mind today…of a time...

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One of the cruelest aspects of Alzheimer’s is the way this disease unfolds… how it’s able to disguise itself, at first, as just a part of growing old: It began with her misplacing and forgetting things for that’s what old age does. then progressed to her looking at me…bewildered…forgetting who I was. Such is the demeanor of this disease…the...

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The diagnosis came As a bit of a shock I am starting on Alzheimer’ Slowly tickling clock. Will I be watching in horror From a near zombie state As my body develops Into a thing I would hate. Unable to speak or Express any thought, Fly in spider’s in a web Pulled relentlessly taut. Will it be a prison. Will there still be a me. Will I be mind...

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Confusion, anger, helplessness. Where is it? What did I do with it? Did someone take it? Denial That doctor is crazy. There's nothing wrong with me. Everyone forgets things now and then. They're trying to get rid of me. Conspiring against me. They want what I have acquired. No one cares what happens to me. My only friend is the dog. The only one who still loves me. He...

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A Long Goodbye A vast familiar landscape flutters and faulters;invites and departs Fog slowly rolls in, shrouding present and past,in a harsh, lonely tomb 6/11/22...

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Alzheimers Some say Alzheimers took you, But I simply don't agree, Yes you didn't recognise my face, But your heart remembered me. I never saw you as a partly missing, Or as a flicker of your former self, I saw you as my Grandma, And simply nothing else. Your heart was filled with love, No negativity at all, Your alzheimers gave you powers, It...

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This is a place where confusion found a home I am lost, in bondage, aimless, free to roam. ...

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The daughter suspected there was something wrong…she found it most upsetting…when she began to notice all the little things her mother was forgetting. And the more she saw her mother falter…her misplaced keys…her lost glasses…her forgotten shoes…The more confusion she saw on her mother’s face…the more and more she knew… It made her want to throw...

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You have left me without leaving, Your presence here beyond deceiving. We share a space where you are not, You’ve gone on to I know not what. Desertion was not your plan at all, But your mind, by a siren call, Loosed our forever knot, And left me looking where you’re not For the love and life we shared, Shattered now with no hope...

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Dementia vs. Alzheimer's Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia. Alzheimer's is a specific disease. Dementia is not. Could these diseases be a prelude to Birth ??? A time when we lived with cosmic consciousness. A time when we lived within...

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She has never seen such a wildness She laughs so loudly that people are looking She had never laughed this loudly before Her relatives began shushing her But she is eighty-six years young And this silliness tickled her funny bone She cannot stop laughing at the craziness Her husband is dead, so he can no longer silence her She settles down after awhile...

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I'm going to share a truth...that will shock you my friends. It's about when my Grandma...when she reached her bitter end. She died in a hospital...she had Alzheimer's disease. But that's not what killed her...you'll find this hard to believe. When I got to her side...she was hungry and scared. She weighed 60 lbs...there was no food anywhere. The hospital staff...was...

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