A little earlier today, I went live with a brand new website for the Fireball Foundation. It’s a lot sleeker and professional than the previous site plus sports a brand new logo. It’s a quiet launch – meaning I don’t intend on promoting the new site for a while. Once […] Read more »
Review: ‘The Alzheimer’s Project’ – Los Angeles Times
HBO’s ambitious four-part documentary covers the scientific and personal aspects of the debilitating disease with heart-wrenching honesty and clarity. Review: ‘The Alzheimer’s Project’ – Los Angeles Times Read more »
Share With Me
I’ve spent the last hour researching ways to turn Word Press into a wiki for content sharing. Our foundations first project will be developing a centralized knowledge base for information. I want to allow users to be able to review our site and then add additional information, which seems useful. […] Read more »
Green House Projects Let Elders Age In Homes : NPR
I just listened to an amazing interview with Dr. Bill Thomas is an authority on nursing home care and the author of the website changingaging.org. He has some great innovative ideas on what nursing homes and the best way to care for older adults. Next, he threw out the institutional […] Read more »
Defensive Strategies: The Dark Side of PR
When faced with terrible information on our business, we have three options. The first option is to ignore the data and assume everything is okay. The second option is to see the data and tackle the problems head-on so we can find out the truth and fix what needs to […] Read more »
A Benchmark for Getting it Right: Cooper Ridge
Over the last couple weeks I’ve decided to stop worrying about the next big phase for the foundation and focus on just learning (and sharing) more about the world of dementia and Alzheimer patient care by posting the articles on the charity’s blog. Today was supposed to be another day […] Read more »
Step 1: Decide if a Nursing Home Is Necessary – US News and World Report
US News and World Report has some great information on how to make the decision to put a loved one in a care facility. The article provides information on steps to take to when thinking about such a move. This is a multipart series and should be required reading for […] Read more »
Jacqueline Marcell: Right doctor can diagnose dementia – El Paso Times
During the development of the Fireball Foundation and our subsequent research to develop our key projects, we found an online need for information and knowledge sharing. Our project development work for an Alzheimer’s / dementia portal continues, but we wanted to get more information out there via our blog. We’re […] Read more »
Person-centred’ care works better for dementia | Life and style | BMJ Group
The Guardian on Thursday had an interesting column on new dementia patient care research that suggests that people with dementia become less agitated when the care facility used a person-centered approach to care rather than the normal regimented systems used by a lot of nursing homes in the UK and […] Read more »
Interviews
I finished speaking with Susan Robison, interim Director of Career Services at WVU. Susan was my main guidance counselor at WVU during undergrad and has been a good friend ever since. She hit my radar last autumn during Homecoming when we spoke for about 20 minutes on the new charity, […] Read more »