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World Alzheimer’s Day
Dementia, Support, stress Ilse Aerts, LMFT Dementia, Support, stress Ilse Aerts, LMFT

World Alzheimer’s Day

There are at least 8 different types of dementia, not to mention there are mixed combinations as well. Some of the most common ones are: Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular Dementia, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia, Huntington’s Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Symptoms vary by type, but 10 of the most common warning signs are:

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Save a relationship by using these ‘Fair Fighting Rules’.

Save a relationship by using these ‘Fair Fighting Rules’.

As you are probably well aware, the last few years have been difficult due to so many occurrences happening in the world. Political issues, COVID-19, so many different losses in everyone’s life, not to mention all the different viewpoints related to all these topics

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Celebrating Your Holidays Away From Home
Depression, relationships Ilse Aerts, LMFT Depression, relationships Ilse Aerts, LMFT

Celebrating Your Holidays Away From Home

Choosing to move to Southern California 15 years ago still, stirs up a variety of emotions during the Holidays for me.  Even though it was very exciting to move from a cold, wet, dark country to sunny California, it was so strange and foreign (pun intended) to hear Christmas songs and seeing decorated trees in 80-degree weather.  My first Christmas in Southern California was celebrated with friends at an outside barbecue gathering, which was total opposite from an inside dinner with close relatives around a fire in the fireplace.

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