Dementia
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This elderly woman sits at the window and contemplates the world outside. She does not see far beyond the window frame because her world has diminished considerably. Two years ago she was officially diagnosed with dementia after a life threatening surgery and long hospital stay. However, her family and friends noticed a difference in her personality over the last several years. Once a proud and hard working single mom, she raised two children during the 60’s and 70’s at a time when single parenthood was not as widely accepted as it is today. At present, she is reduced to little more than the passive demeanor of a quiet child. She is aware of the reduction in both her mental and physical abilities. She also understands that she is helpless to change anything. / It takes great courage to face the inevitable. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia; it accounts for 64 per cent of all dementias. For example right now in the US, Alzeihmer’s has surpassed diabetes and is the sixth leading cause of death. As baby boomers are rapidly approaching the age of retirement it is believed that 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s in their lifetime. Currently, there are more than 24 million people in the world with dementia—this is estimated to rise to 81 million by the year 2040.6 / Statistics taken from both the Canadian and American Alzeihmer’s Society. / Published by Redbubble in Compassion, Courage and Friendship book October 2008 / Compassion, Courage & Friendship Featured in the Nirvana group October 2008 / Featured in the ImageWriting group November 2008 / Featured in the RB Buyer’s Booth November 2008 / Featured in the Stillness Speaks group November 2008 / Featured on RB homepage on November 25/08 / The Fine Art of Photography
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When I saw this prayer, written by an unknown author, at the Carmelite monastery where I do volunteer work, I knew I had to incorporate it into an image and offer its consoling words to those who are suffering from Alzheimer’s as well as to family, friends, and medical personnel who care for those afflicted with this disease. I chose an image of a cloud-filled sky as the sun was setting because those with Alzheimer’s are largely in the sunset of their lives and have to contend with many issues that cloud their lives. Prayer for an Alzheimer’s Sufferer Please grant my visitors tolerance for my confusion, / Forgiveness for my irrationality, / and the strength to walk with me / Into the mist of memory my world has become. Please let them take my hand and stay awhile / Even though I seem unaware of their presence. / Help them to know how their strength and loving care / Will drift slowly into the days to come / Just when I need it most. Let them know when I don’t recognize them / that I will . . . I will. / Keep their hearts free from sorrow for me / For my sorrow when it comes only lasts a moment – / then it’s gone. And finally please let them know / how very much their visits mean, / How, even through this relentless mystery, / I can still feel the love. Amen
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‘Old Man Thinks Sky Too Heavy’ sums up stooping, incontinence, dementia and the unrelenting fear of the anti-climax of an afterlife From: The Epic Collection of ‘Elle Jaye Rose’ facebook graffiti EDITION # of 20 SHIRTS note some designs may have an ever so-slight screen resolution affect (which is part of their concept)
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This is a composite of multiple images of textures that I have taken over the years.
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All stocks from deviantart.Used with permission. COPYRIGHT NOTICE © ALL of the works and content on my gallery are under copyright law (2003-2007). You Can’t download, use the pictures for layouts, blogs, websites, myspace, banners, designs, posters, cd, books etc without accessing a license from me. My work is NOT stock photography. If my work is being used illegally, then legal action will be taken.If you see my work being used, please message me straight away. Please respect copyrights! Special thank you to: artist2.deviantart.com/ Background from: / lady-dementia-stock.deviantart.com/ Model from: / dove-stock.deviantart.com/ Wave brushes from: / redheadstock.deviantart.com/
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Model http://lady-dementia-stock.deviantart.com/ Manipulated by me in Photoshop CS2
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indian ink. Im illustrating the effect of alzheimer’s on the brain. What was once a ‘normal’ person is now nearly unrecognisable from his original self. The very being of a person breaks down into tiny pieces, at each stage becoming more and more distorted until the person can no longer be told apart from the illness. (c) REO 2007
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2009 acrylic on 16” x 20” canvas. I always seem to find my way back to the darkness…
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My mother, a brilliant multi-talented artist, started losing her memory several years after the passing of her beloved mother, my grandmother, and shortly after her abusive husband retired from his job as a high school vice-principal. He would leave her alone for weeks at a time while he gallivanted around the country rock-hounding with his girlfriend, and provided only cursorily for her basic needs (in one case hiring to cook her meals a woman with a criminal record who proceeded to bring her boyfriend into my mother’s house to pick her pockets and her locks). I had to hire a lawyer to force him to let my mother go into a nursing home, where she spent the last five years of her life. It was a good facility as these places go, though I was not happy with her treatment much of the time and spent a lot of energy advocating and outright fighting for her to get adequate care there. Witnessing the relentless deterioration which accompanies dementia of any kind is terrifying. But it was the dullness of her eyes-those former bright stars now reduced to black holes-that I think pained me the most. Amazingly, she recognized me until the day before she died, on June 6, 2002. This painting is a curse against the tentacles in her brain that ate her away piece by heart-rending piece.
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My mother is 93 and can no longer play. My art comes from her. This image is for my Elven maiden in Middle Earth.
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At home with dementia card design. You can give it again, and again….
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indian ink. Im illustrating the effect of alzheimer’s on the brain. What was once a ‘normal’ person is now nearly unrecognisable from his original self. The very being of a person breaks down into tiny pieces, at each stage becoming more and more distorted until the person can no longer be told apart from the illness.. (c) REO 2007
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indian ink on smooth watercolour paper 21×29.7cm Im illustrating the effect of alzheimer’s on the brain. What was once a ‘normal’ person is now nearly unrecognisable from his original self. The very being of a person breaks down into tiny pieces, at each stage becoming more and more distorted until the person can no longer be told apart from the illness. Also available as T-Shirt. (c) REO 2007
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Victims of Alzheimer’s disease have to live in a growing maze of confusion every single day of their lives. Only the most recent memories are affected at the beginning, with the disease slowly working its way back to the older ones, until the victim finally loses her own identity and that of her surroundings… One day you will go out of the house and get a sinking feeling when you find yourself looking for that ironing board at the local playground. This shot was made as a tribute to my grandmother who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease during the last 15 years of her life, and had to go through all of these stages. It’s also an homage to my grandfather who took care of her lovingly and patiently for as long as he could, and finally decided to seek long term care for her when he turned 77 and it all became too much for him. I wanted my mom to be my model in this shot but I couldn’t get hold of her on that day, so I decided to take my sister instead. She graciously accepted to model for me and we drove to the local playground. Once there, she put on a bathrobe with big fuzzy slippers, mussed her hair, grabbed the iron that I had brought as a prop, and tried her best to look lost and confused… I had to age her face and hair considerably in Photoshop because she’s only 43 and didn’t really look the part. Read my short story on Alzheimer’s disease
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Based off a project i did on Dementia using a variety of different print techniques.
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this just reminded me of a little incident with my ex mother in law, who unfortunately is suffering from dementia/alzheimers….......tis sad for the families but especially sad for the person…....anyway…....she went for a walk and didn’t know how to get home but the dog that we gave her knew the way home, so she just followed the dog and in the end, he got her home…..........something about animals and how they look out for their minders….
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I may be old and grey / My eyes that blur the line / But tell me of our life and love / One more time
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Flights of Fancy - title page decoration (w/c on c/press illust brd)
by Rory StapletonUS$4.16–US$29.69
A story about two grandchildren on a sleep-over at Nana and Grandad’s…Grandad flies his kite out through the bathroom window as he has his evening shower. Nana takes the Grandchildren into the garden to watch as the kite dances on the breeze…A story written in rhyming verse by the artist, it looks at Dementia in those we love and how we can ease, not only our own concerns over the effects, but the concerns of children/grandchildren and the apparent loss of the person they thought they knew…(Looking for a publisher)
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© 2008 RC deWinter A look at the tangled, decaying neurons inside the demented brain.
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16×20 accrylic on canvas. This is the first in my Skin Deep series.
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2008 acrylic on canvas.
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28” X 40” / acrylics, glow-in-the-dark paint, ink, marker and cuttings from northern California map on a Portland map “I’m not so sure I like Portland yet…and I’m positive I don’t like city life. I miss the forest, the mountains, extended periods of no precipitation, the kind(and cheap) herbs, crystal clear lakes, bums with manners, unpaved ground…. / the lack of a large, dense population.” $500 (unframed)
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This guy is what reminds me most about India. Graphite pencil on claybord, ©David Emrich. I get a lot of comments on this shirt, so will you.
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No Walk In The Park
by Johanne BrunetVictims of Alzheimer’s disease have to live in a growing maze of confusion every single day of their lives. Read about their distressi…
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