Sep 16, 2022 | Mission Integration
Ensuring that someone with dementia one is eating enough nutritious foods and drinking enough fluids is a challenge. People with dementia literally begin to forget that they need to eat and drink. Complicating the issue may be dental problems or medications that...
Aug 18, 2022 | Mission Integration
Some of the greatest challenges of caring or someone with dementia are the personality and behavior changes that often occur. You can best meet these challenges by using creativity, flexibility, patience, and compassion. It also helps to not take things personally...
Jul 20, 2022 | Mission Integration
Some of the greatest challenges of caring for someone with dementia are the personality and behavior changes that often occur. You can best meet these challenges by using creativity, flexibility, patience, and compassion. It also helps to not take things personally...
Jun 15, 2022 | Mission Integration
On the third Sunday of June, we honor fatherhood, parental bonds, and the influence fathers have had in society. Let us reflect on the way our own fathers have been important in our own lives. In some Catholic European countries, Father’s Day has been celebrated on...
Jun 1, 2022 | Mission Integration
Compassion, quality and dignity are hallmarks of the care provided at Vincentian. Many of our caregivers work directly with indivituals with dementia; others may have family members facing dementia. This can be a challenging experience. The Family Caregiver Alliance...
May 18, 2022 | Mission Integration
Florence Nightingale once said, “To be a fellow worker with God is the highest aspiration of which we can conceive man capable.” No matter what position we hold at Vincentian system, we are all fellow workers with God. God calls each of us to a specific work, to give...
