Just in time for a Thanksgiving Day celebration with family and friends, we made a final push yesterday to clear the sunny yoga room of estate boxes I had decided were *easy* – or, the easiest emotionally of the three groups we triaged months ago in March/April (the other two groups include The Box Room […]
If you hadn’t yet heard, this is one of the major headlines for our November celebration of National Family Caregiver Month and National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month. It is a perennial headline that doesn’t always make the news. Every year, there is no more critical issue for caregivers than this one. The health effects suffered […]
An early registration discount is available through end-of-day tomorrow, November 6! What: Family Caregivers Take Time! Retreat When: Thursday, Nov. 13, 9:30am – 1:30pm Where: Rolling Ridge Retreat Center in North Andover, MA With heartfelt compassion for those who truly need this retreat at this time, ~ Mary Learn more about this retreat: Family Caregivers […]
Only three more days until our respite and recreation mission site – rest-stop-ranch.com – relaunches on World Alzheimer’s Day, September 21! This weekend, consider: If you are a loved one living with dementia: Respite and Recreation: What might it look like, feel like – to take a time-out from the symptoms of dementia? What if […]
Friends, As part of our participation in World Alzheimer’s Month, we’ll be attending “The Forgetting Curve” play, by Vanda, playing at the Wimberly Theatre at the Huntington on Thursday evening, this week. The play runs to the 27th of September. They have performances on Wednesdays (7:30PM), Thursdays (7:30PM), Fridays (8PM) Saturdays (8PM), and Sundays (2PM). […]
Welcome to the new face of Marymac Missions! We have launched this new site on the 4th of July to celebrate our kindred spirits with the revolutionaries of our American past who fought for freedom, for representation, and for equality of persons… similar to contemporary family caregivers’ and care-receivers’ causes for which Marymac Missions has […]
The Marymac Missions’ Annual Report 2013 offers an overview of: – 2013 Metrics & More: Meeting People Where They Are: 6 Channels – Our Work: Speaking, Teaching, Coaching, Consulting – Our Work: Research, Design & Development – 2013 in Balance Sheet Enjoy reading the Marymac Missions’ Annual Report 2013! Moving forward with a listening heart, […]
We closed the sale of the family home this past Friday. This is a great feeling after six months of clearing-out, sorting, purging, packing, and moving the remaining valued contents to our current home. It has been an exhausting several months of hard physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual work and miles and miles of interstate […]
Please find below my notes from the Dementia Care@Alzheimer Association International Conference, which happened Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at the Boston Convention Center, Boston, MA. These notes are compiled for unpaid family caregivers and professional care staff who may not have the time or money to attend such a conference. The notes represent highlights from […]
