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Sundowning in Mother s Alzheimer s Life

Posted on October 04, 2008

AlzheimersNotes.comYesterday I explained Sundowning in Word of the Week. I began thinking about Mother s sundowning experiences. This wasn t a big problem with her, but some crisis situations did occur in late afternoon.I found her sundowning activities usually were connected to something she customarily did in late afternoon in her earlier life. When I delve deeper into other patients sundowning, I ve realized this often is connected with an afternoon event of former days.*Feeding chickens - When I was growing up on the dairy farm, we also raised chickens and sold eggs. We fed...

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