TV Anti-Tip Ideas Childproof Safety Plasma LCD Flatscreen Furniture

Prevent injury from a toppling Flat Screen TV: Earthquake Proof Your Home : Protect Children, Pets

"The number and rate of injuries to children associated with furniture tip-overs are increasing. Pediatricians and caregivers should be aware of this important source of pediatric injury and the strategies for prevention." 
-- Clinical Pediatrics Journal

Think about the layout of your room and your television or monitor. Which of these systems would work best for you?

These devices aren't limited to serving people with small children. Pets run around and could easily knock down a tall television. You don't want anything to make your heavy furniture tip. Is this something you'd like to buy your kids' grandparents or their care providers? Consider furniture safety.

Depending on the size and layout of your home and the placement of the TV, it could be just one bump in the dark or at a party that knocks over that expensive piece of equipment. Do you have an extra-large monitor for your computer? This may be a concern for you, too. If you're creating a baby gift basket for new parents, these are some items to include that are practical. They'll show that you really care and thought about their growing family.

Live in earthquake territory or a location prone to tornadoes or hurricanes? Just one storm when the lights go out and something can happen. There is the need to earthquake proof your flat screen TV. You know all too well about how furniture may shift without any notice. Losing the fancy television is the least of your worries if a family member, including our pets, are nearby when it falls over.

Child home safety is a serious issue. We secure book cases, entertainment centers and other pieces of furniture. Items on and within pieces of furniture can come out in a storm or earthquake.

Perhaps someone in your home is elderly, has a health or mobility issue. We don't want to lose balance and suddenly that find the thing you grab onto causes you and something else to fall. Children will pull out drawers to climb up onto furniture. Little kids in our family have the nickname little monkey. You can't be too careful.

At holiday-time, many people are also considering the infamous falling over Christmas tree. There are trips for keeping children, pets and other things from sending your tree over on its side. On Easter, children root around looking for eggs and special treats.

Will you be entertaining and have more people than usual going through your home? Will relatives be visiting or be house-sitting? Is a friend camping out on your couch? Holidays can be a festive stressful time for the whole family, including our pets.

What are your favorite movies to watch with your kids or grandkids? Do your toddlers operate the remote control themselves? We can show our kids movies from the past, enjoy with them what we loved when we were their age. We can take movies of them and watch them on TV or on other devices. For some of us, that wasn't possible when we were children.

Anti-Furniture Tip : Ready America Flat Screen TV Safety Strap
Ready America Flat Screen TV Safety Strap
Furniture safety straps. Flat Screen Safety Straps are your best defense against earthquakes. Secure large flat screen televisions from toppling in an earthquake, preventing damage and injury.

Easy peel and press application with no holes required and the straps are hidden from view. The straps are black in color to blend with the surroundings of the electronics.

Each package contains two straps for mounting your flat screen TV to your TV/entertainment stand.

Don't wait for accidents to happen. Protect your Flat Screen TV from devastating falls with these TV straps. Made of sturdy nylon, these flat screen safety straps will keep your TV in its place. Hidden from view, easy to install. Made in America.

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How stable is your TV? The information is important - Do you have misconceptions?

Excerpts of TVSafety, CPSC's First Twitter Chat
-- "Every other week, a child dies in the U.S. when a television, a piece of furniture or an appliance falls on him or her. CPSC held a Twitter chat with @KidsinDanger and @GaryASmithMD to talk about anchoring and strapping TVs and saving children's lives." February 2012

In Chicago alone, media has reported that since October four children have died and one has been seriously injured from televisions falling on them.

How many of you put the remote or toys up high on furniture that holds a TV?

Is this just a problem with older tube TVs?

What does childproofing a TV really mean? Where can you find anchors and straps?

Do you know how to safeguard your TV and furniture?

How stable is your TV?

Some of the statistics reported:

Head/neck injuries from furniture tip-overs are most common in kids 9/under.

Every day, more than 40 US kids are rushed to an ED after a heavy piece of furniture has fallen on them

Young children are less able to anticipate danger: That's where childproofing steps come into play. Anchor & Protect

65% of children who died in tipover incidents were between 1 and 3 1/2 years old.

 

Prevent a Flat Screen TV from tipping over

Choose 2-Pack or 4-Pack

KidCo Anti-tip TV Strap 2 Pack Use straps to help flat screen TV saver will help prevent flat screen TV's from dangerously tipping over.
Helps protect your child from injury. You need a Plasma or LCD TV tie-down to provide protection for your children.

From the day of the baby shower gift -- are other new moms and dads bringing little ones to your home for the party? -- these are good ideas to not only give but to have yourself.

TV Guards, Button Shields

Many of these companies also manufacture Button Shields and TV Guards for your electronics, your TV, DVR, DVD Player, etc. The VCR guards should still be available for those of us who still have VCRs and VHS/DVD player/recorders.

Have you heard the one about the frozen waffle that went into the DVD player? That's one reason the TV Guards were made.

Little fingers can quickly reprogram electronics. Having a plan to put away remote controls is a good idea.

We now use something similar to protect our pets, it helps with dust and pet hair as well.


How many televisions, computers and other monitors do you have in your home or office? Is your office secured?

Video Games & TVs Falling Older Children - At home safety

Practice furniture safety by securing your flat panel stand helpful short video

Attach to heavy furniture: Safety Straps for Equipment : 2-Pack

Option of mounting by attaching to the heavy piece of furniture

Parent Units 2 Pack Equipment Safety Straps, Black
Parent Units Safety Straps for Equipment
These proven performance, award-winning fasteners greatly reduce the dangers associated with unsecured equipment. TVs, stereo equipment, computer monitors, game consoles, etc.

Think about this as a great gift idea for a baby shower, a new mom, a Christmas gift for new baby, new parents. Add it to a new baby gift basket. For parents of toddlers, maybe these are things not thought about until something happens?

Our friends had a power outage during a party. Bad combination of a house full of disoriented friends and a house that was suddenly totally dark. Lots of folks bumping into each other, into furniture.

Safety Straps help secure appliances from being able to move, slip or slide.
These easy-to-use straps are safe on finished wood & all types of electronic equipment.



 
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List of famous people with Alzheimers Disease Dementia

List of Famous people who have or had Alzheimers Disease

Rita Hayworth 1940s

Stunning color photo poster

This list will reinforce the fact that all of us are susceptible to the disease and more of us are caring for family members and other loved ones living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. The disease has nothing to do with your intelligence, ideology or socioeconomic status.

While more people get it at an older age, it isn't exclusively an older person's disease. It has been around, and been diagnosed, longer than some of us may have realized. 

Many of these people in the public eye and/or their family members have become advocates for Alzheimer's information, funding and research.

Once married to Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth was an iconic actress and dancer active from the 1930s through the 1970s. 

She danced with Fred Astaire in You'll Never Get Rich. Some of her best known films include Gilda, Cover Girl, The Lady From Shanghai, Salome and The Story on Page One Rita Hayworth was an American servicemen's pinup.

Her marriage to Orson Welles lasted 1943-1948. They had one daughter.
Rita Hayworth died in 1987 from Alzheimer's Disease at the age of 68.

According to a 1987 New York Times article, Hayworth "had been under the care of her second daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, who by publicizing her mother's tragic illness had drawn national and international attention to Alzheimer's disease, about which little was known until recent years."

Peter Falk with Richard Kiley in an episode of Columbo,
"Just one more thing..."

Short list of some of the famous people who have or had Alzheimer's Disease:

Charles Bronson had a long career on television and in films, known for his work in the Death Wish series.
Peter Falk, actor in many films known well for his role as Lt. Columbo

Burgess Meredith Received Academy Award nominations for his work in Rocky and The Day of the Locust. Also prolific on television and the stage.
Charleton Heston In 1959 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Ben-Hur, Heston worked in many memorable films such as Planet of the Apes.

Dana Andrews The Best Years of Our Lives
Estelle Getty Golden Girls

Jack Lord Hawaii 5-0

Arlene Francis Famous in part for being on the show, What's My Line?
James Doohan was Montgomery Scotty Scott on Star Trek, when they said "Beam me up, Scotty," he was the man to do it.


Glen Campbell: In early 2013 it was announced that Campbell would no longer be able to continue touring. Instead he would work as an advocate for Alzheimer's research. He spent his 77th birthday in Washington.

Mabel Albertson: The sister of actor Jack Albertson, Mabel Albertson played the mother of Donald Hollinger on That Girl, Howard Sprague on The Andy Griffith Show and Dick Van Dyke on The New Dick Van Dyke Show. She was Phyllis Stephens, Darrin's Mom on Bewitched. Her character was known to say to her husband, "Frank, take me home. I have a sick headache."

Sports:

Patty Berg, LPGA great

James Doohan visits NASA
Dryden Flight Research Center
Edwards, California.
Pictured w/ NASA
pilot Bruce Peterson 1967.

Sugar Ray Robinson, Boxer
Former Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's in 2011

Music, Art:

Perry Como
Thomas A. Dorsey, known as Father of Gospel Music [wrote Peace in the Valley for Mahalia Jackson in 1937]
Artist, Willem de Kooning

Writing:

Sir Terry Pratchett
E. B. White, Classic children's books, Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan


Terry Pratchett on Alzheimers - BBC
An esteemed author of fantasy novels, Mr. Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease





Said to have had the disease: 

Norman Rockwell
composer Aaron Copland
Rosa Parks

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Former President Ronald Reagan

In August 1994, at the age of 83, former President Ronald Reagan was

Vintage photo poster
California Governor Candidate
Ronald Reagan Petting Horse
at Home on Ranch

diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, an incurable neurological disorder which destroys brain cells and ultimately causes death. In November he informed the nation through a handwritten letter.
Excerpt from letter:

"I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease... At the moment I feel just fine. I intend to live the remainder of the years God gives me on this earth doing the things I have always done... 

"I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. May God always bless you."

Reagan died of pneumonia, brought on by Alzheimer's disease at his home in Bel Air, California, on the afternoon of June 5, 2004.

"My family and I would like the world to know that President Ronald Reagan has died after 10 years of Alzheimer's disease at 93 years of age. We appreciate everyone's prayers." Nancy Reagan's statement.
-- Some information from Wikipedia


Visit the Alzheimers Association web site for the latest information about treatment for the Alzheimer's disease, the stages of the disease and dementia, also places to get help in your area.


If you've met one person with Alzheimer's Disease, you've met one person with Alzheimer's Disease.
-- Unknown


Alzheimer's Disease Books, Movies, Songs

More gorgeous photos of Rita Hayworth, President Reagan and many others.
Available framed or unframed, your choice of size, paper type
The names on this page are in no particular order.

Alzheimers Movies, Books and Songs

Alzheimer's Disease in Movies and Songs

It's hard to have the time to escape when you're in the midst of caretaking for

Promotional poster for 1985
Do You Remember Love
Dave Bell Associates, Inc. 

someone with Alzheimers or dementia. When you get a break, it's sometimes hard to relax your mind. It's also easy to feel that you're all alone in this. September is World Alzheimer's Month. 

While your situation is completely unique, it's got a similarity to what others have gone through and are going through and there are people you can talk to for support. Being a dementia caregiver can be isolating. Watching a movie together may help get discussions going within the family.

There are movies and songs you can sample on the Amazon site if you choose to do so. Watch a trailer. Sometimes watching or listening might finally give you that excuse to cry for the first time in a long time. 

They may help to relieve a bit of your caregiver stress if only for a moment. Many of the items on this page, CDs, DVDs, etc make wonderful caregiver gifts.

I'm including what were some of the most helpful informative books and documentaries on video, too. Mostly, this page has movies and songs that deal with getting older, caregiving or directly with Alzheimers. If you're one of the many Alzheimer's and/or dementia caregivers out there, please leave any more you might know of in the comment section at the end.

What is Alzheimer's Disease?

Is a progressive and fatal brain disease. As many as 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's destroys brain cells, causing memory loss and problems with thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies or social life. Alzheimer's gets worse over time, and it is fatal. Today it is the seventh-leading cause of death in the United States. The web site and books can help you with the Warning Signs and Stages of Alzheimer's Disease.

September is World Alzheimer's Month. Think about participating in the Walk to End Alzheimer's or sponsoring a walker.

Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer's disease accounts for 50 to 70 percent of dementia cases. Other types of dementia include vascular dementia, mixed dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia.

It has no current cure. But treatments for symptoms, combined with the right services and support, can make life better for the millions of Americans living with Alzheimer's. There is an accelerating worldwide effort under way to find better ways to treat the disease, delay its onset or prevent it from developing. 

Iris about the author Iris Murdoch

Alzheimer's Themed Films to stream, get on DVD - Helping you to realize that you're not alone

Films to consider:

Iris, a film about the English author Iris Murdoch Stars include Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent who won an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor, Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville.

I Never Sang for My Father: with Melvyn Douglas and Gene Hackman, director Gilbert Cates

The Savages: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Firefly Dreams: A Japanese film with Maho, Tsutomu Niwa, Etsuko Kimata, Shunsuke Kabeya, Atsushi Ono

Sundowning: Minor Rootes, Steve Jones, director Jim Cole
You may find them on DVD or on television

Still Alice, Julianne Moore won an Oscar for her performance. Costars are Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart. Still Alice is available for pre-order. You may want to read Lisa Genova’s best selling novel.

U Me Aur Hum: Bollywood DVD with Ajay Devgan and Kajol, director: Ajay Devgan

Tracy & Jess: Living with Early Onset Alzheimer's 

The Alzheimer's Project 4-part HBO documentary Maria Shriver

The documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me includes the song I'm Not Gonna Miss You which was an Academy Award nominee. Tim McGraw sang the song as a tribute to the singer at the awards ceremony in February 2015 when Campbell was not able to attend.

I'm Not Gonna Miss You, Glen Campbell




Hanging Up
The film received mixed reviews but is a good look at family and how you may deal with an
aging parent.
"Hanging Up deserves credit for combining issues of sisterhood and elderly parent care while relying on neuroses to carry its unconventional plot.

But you've also got to lament this botched "dramedy" from screenwriting sisters Nora and Delia Ephron (adapting the latter's novel) and director Diane Keaton, who lacks a coherent plan for illuminating their trio of female siblings."

Three sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close - Amazon

Video contains
Deleted sequence
Outake Gag Reel
HBO First Look: Getting Connected, the Making of Hanging Up.
Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau, Delia Ephron and Nora Ephron


Variety of Films, Documentaries, DVDs helpful to, made by, about and specifically for caregivers


Sandwich: Film about a woman handling her mother's Alzheimer's while bringing up her own daughter

Edith and Michel 

Forget Me Not

The Forgetting Featuring David Hyde Pierce

A Short History of Decay

Grace: The Alzheimer's Documentary, William-Whiteford

Alzheimer's Dementia Hands-On Care DVD: "The Art of Caregiving" with Care Expert Teepa Snow. There are several titles with high user ratings to choose from: Alzheimer's Care with Teepa Snow

Academy Award Nominated Short Films

A Collection of 2006 Academy Award Nominated Short Films
Academy Award Nominated Short Films including.....(Not Alzheimer's specific themes, but these are a couple of very good short films with older characters) Included in the set are:

Eramos Pocos (One Too Many) (Spain)
In this comedy, Joaquin, a husband and father, finds that his wife has left him. Joaquin seeks his son's help in bringing home his mother-in-law from the nursing home to do the housework. Beautifully portrayed with an interesting turn of events.

Helmer & Son (Denmark)
A son is called to the rest home where his recently admitted father has locked himself inside a closet. Distinguished by a good dialogue, the short provides an insight on the relationship of father and son.

 Do you remember love? 1985 TV movie
Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward

CBS film about Alzheimer's Disease. This isn't easily found, but being from  the mid-1980s, it was a landmark film and important to talk about. In a year with other fine performances, Ms. Woodward won the  Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her role.

Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to fall under the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional turmoil it causes for her. It also shows how the changes impact her husband, George and their children. The film also looks at the process by which families can be educated and supported to deal with the impact of the disease, as well what is done for those afflicted.

Excerpts from a March 1985 New York Times article about the movie;

"Cancer, heart disease and disabling strokes have already served as the bases of television dramas, and now Mr. Bell's company has just completed shooting a movie about Alzheimer's disease, Do You Remember Love, for CBS. The disease, a neurological disorder that causes loss of memory and confusion - which may leave victims incapable of caring for themselves - currently affects more than two million Americans and has no known cure.

"The film was directed by Jeff Bleckner, who won an Emmy last year for his direction of Concealed Enemies, the PBS dramatization of the Alger Hiss case. Joanne Woodward stars as an award-winning poet and college professor stricken with Alzheimer's disease; Richard Kiley co-stars as her husband, and Geraldine Fitzgerald plays her mother. The movie will be broadcast in May.

"Although the film makers were initially wary of doing another affliction drama, they concluded that this one had qualities that set it apart from the routine tear-jerkers. 'There's something about this disease which is especially frightening, because it attacks the most precious thing we have as human beings, our mental faculties,' Mr. Bleckner said.

"Although there is little hope for victims of the disease, Mr. Bell said Miss Patik's script still found a way to accentuate the positive. 'In the film,'' he said, 'Joanne's family becomes closer because of the disease. They cope with tragedy in a very loving way.'

For Miss Woodward, the subject had more than clinical interest. The actress's mother, Mr. Bleckner said, is an Alzheimer's victim. 'I think Joanne was often quite depressed while doing the film,' Mr. Bleckner said. 'On our last day, we shot in a real convalescent home with many victims of Alzheimer's disease. Joanne got very quiet, and you could tell that it upset her. But she's a consummate professional, and her work was never affected.'"

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Personalize and customize

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Spending time with those we love.
It can be frustrating, it's tough, it's important

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Songs and Music

Neighbor Dan song about early-onset Alzheimer's
- Dave Maloney

Silent House by The Dixie Chicks
can be found on the CD, Taking The Long Way
Amazon Prime members get a very special deal on this and other MP3s

This is one of the songs on this page that we listened to when we were caregiving for some of the family members who've lived with Alzheimer's Disease.

Silent House, Emily Robison excerpt

One room
Two single beds
In the closet hangs
Your favorite dress
The books that you read
Are in scattered piles
Of paper shreds

Everything that you made by hand
Everything that you know by heart

And I will try to connect
All the pieces you left
I will carry it on
And let you forget
And I'll remember the years
When your mind was clear
How the laughter and life
Filled up this silent house
Silent house

Tom Paxton
Live For the Record

Tom Paxton Live: For the Record
He's forgotten the names of trees
This CD includes the poignant Names Of Trees
excerpt of the lyrics by Tom Paxton and Susan Graham White:

... There are days when he'll recall the forest in the fall,
When we can walk for hours together, and he's fine
There are precious days like that
when he can name them all;
The ash, the elm, the beech, the oak, the pine.
He's forgotten the names of trees ...


Live for the Record  may sell out, be temporarily sold out at elsewhere. Please also try link above.
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Live albums don't usually stay in my rotation for too long, and only the best overtly political material stays fresh in my experience. So I'm surprised at how much I still like Live For the Record after nearly four years. As you know if you've been to a Tom Paxton concert in recent years, he starts off his concerts with what he calls "short shelf-life" songs - brief songs about current events that are, in his own words "of diminishing interest to us all."

This disc opens with a clutch of such songs on mid-1990s people and events such as Lorena Bobbitt, Bob Packwood and the 104th Congress; they do sound dated now, but they're still good for a laugh. More seriously, On the Road to Sribinica is the most positively haunting of the few Bosnia songs I've heard; this alone is worth the price of the disc. From there, Paxton switches back and forth with remarkable ease from the serious to the sentimental to the hilarious, a skill which has always been his strongest point as a songwriter and performer.

His band is in fine form throughout the show; it's often hard to believe this was a live recording! There are great renditions of most of his classics (The Last Thing on my Mind, Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound, Ramblin' Boy) as well as his trademark love songs (Dance in the Kitchen, You Are Love) and satire (Modern Maturity and an updating of What Did You Learn in School? that never fails to make my Republican friends angry!) -- Amazon

For My Broken Heart Reba McEntire MP3s or CD 

The album was Reba's first new album in a few years, after the tragic death of her band on a plane. The pain and remorse is evident in her voice, on the title track, which is one of her best songs from the 90's.

Elsewhere, the album offers other great songs which will forever be remembered. Is There Life Out There is another great song about a mother who is working a job, raising two kids and going to college. Its a spirited performance by Reba, who gives the song life.

Her cover of The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia is a great performance as well, as if the song was written for her to sing it. The album shows Reba's ability as a singer to convey different emotions and to get the message she wants to send out to the listener. 

Other highlights include He's In Dallas, If I Had Only Known and Buying Her Roses. A must have. Give it a listen. -- Amazon




Not intended for to be about loss of memory, Too Many Memories is from the Tom Rush CD, What I Know. The song is available on MP3

Once a future so bright now seems distant and cold
And the shadows grow long and your eyes look so old
When there's too many memories for one heart to hold
Now there are those moments
And they just never fade
Like the look in her eyes
And the way the light played

God moved in that moment
And the angels all cried
And they gave you a memory
that you'll have til you die
And the lesson you've learned
And you don't dare forget
What makes you grow old is replacing hope with regret
When there's too many memories for one heart to hold 


Neurologist and author, Dr. Oliver Sacks speaks about music and memory




Alzheimer's: The Answers You Need
A book to answer questions for the person with the disease
Many books about Alzheimer's disease assume that family caregivers or professionals are reading them. Alzheimer's: The Answers You Need is the first book written expressly for the patient. The book assumes that people with AD are intelligent, sensitive and desperately seeking answers to questions about their condition. Moreover, the book does not overwhelm with information nor does it condescend in attempts to convey a point.-- Amazon

I Remember Better When I Paint: Art and Alzheimer's Choose DVD and/or paperback book to accompany. "I Remember Better When I Paint, narrated by Olivia de Havilland, is a documentary about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies on people with Alzheimer's and how these approaches can change the way we look at the disease."

The 36-Hour Day A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias and Memory Loss (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
This is the book that our relative's doctors suggested. It was very helpful to us. Choose the most recent edition.
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It has been estimated that five percent of older people suffer from severe intellectual impairment. So these two eloquent and readable guides will be much in demand as the number of families facing the challenge of caring for a relative with some form of dementing illness continues to grow.

First published in 1981, The 36-Hour Day follows the format of the previous editions but has been thoroughly updated to incorporate new information on the latest research, several drugs that hold promise, and genetic aspects of Alzheimer's. The heart of the guide remains unchanged, focusing on helping families cope with this progressive and irreversible disease. Besides tips on how to care for the demented during the various stages of the disease (for example, place a picture of a toilet on the bathroom door), the text discusses the different kinds of help available and how to seek it. Financial and legal issues are well covered, while sections on nursing homes and other alternative living arrangements provide advice and practical suggestions.

Appendixes list recent books, videos, web sites, and U.S. and international organizations. Both titles are highly recommended: Rabins and Mace for the practical help and advice, Jones for her eloquent presentation of a comprehensive program that treats patients with dignity. Cleveland Clinic Fdn. (C) 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.



Please Note:
Other songs, films and books will be added. What are some that have helped you?
 
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Related Pages of Interest:

Painting as Therapy for Persons with Alzheimers  


A list of celebrities with Alzheimer's Disease and/or Dementia

Alzheimer's Disease Programs at Museums: Art appreciation, therapy

Cinematic Journeys From One Traumatic Transition to Another: Puberty, Aging, Alzheimer's

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1985: Joanne Woodward won the Emmy for her work in Do You Remember Love? There were so many strong performances by women in important and memorable films and miniseries that year. Several were taken from books. Other nominees for the Primetime Emmy that year included Farrah Fawcett in a much praised performance in The Burning Bed, a story about a battered wife. It was taken from a non-fiction book.  

Mary Tyler Moore in Heartsounds, playing Martha Weinman Lear former editor of The New York Times Magazine in a film dealing with heart disease. Jane Alexander for Malice in Wonderland which was based on the 1972 novel Hedda and Louella: A Dual Biography of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. Elizabeth Taylor was Louella Parsons. Alexander was Hedda Hopper. Finally Peggy Ashcroft in the very popular The Jewel in the Crown.

Contemporary Pop Rock Country Memorial Songs

Pop, Rock & Country Memorial Songs
Many of the songs written within the past 50 years 

Judy Garland
Little Liza Minnelli
Mickey Rooney
Hollywood Movie Star photo

Songs for Memorials and Tributes, Make it personal for the individual. Maybe you just want to listen to some songs because it's someone's birthday or the anniversary of a day that you lost someone special. 

The older we've gotten the more often we've been involved in planning remembrances.

Sometimes we can't think of what to say, can't think of a song. Several of these songs memorialize and celebrate the people's lives.

Is this for a soldier, a family member, was it a sudden death, the death of a child, your partner?
Inspiration from: Paul McCartney, the members of Monty Python, the friends and colleagues of Jim Henson, more.

Will it be an indoor/outdoor service?

Songs written for...

• Losing a parent, grandparent, sibling, friend
• Loss of a child, miscarriage
• Saluting a hero, soldier
• Following sudden deaths, losing someone unexpectedly
• Paul McCartney sings for John Lennon
• Memorial services of prominent people such as Jim Henson and Graham Chapman of Monty Python
• Judy Garland sings Battle Hymn of the Republic honoring President Kennedy 1963
• There's a link to main page with ideas, examples and lists of songs

Seek help from films and movie soundtracks. Think of favorite movies that have the tone you’re looking for if you need help choosing a song. If you want something that will be meaningful to children, several Disney films incorporate separation, loss of a partner, family member, friend and/or a pet. Are there familiar songs in those movies?

Loss of a Parent, Grandparent:

Me and the Wildwood Rose, Carlene Carter 1990 (Written about the death of her grandmother, Maybelle Carter)
 
Tears in the Holston River, Johnny Cash (Written about the death of Mother Maybelle Carter)

Silent House, Dixie Chicks

Little Willow, Paul McCartney written upon the death of Ringo Starr's first wife, Maureen, who died of cancer. The song was to be a comfort to their children.

Dance With My Father, Luther Vandross 

Baby Girl Window, Robbie Williams (was inspired by Samantha Beckinsale and her late father, actor Richard Beckinsale):
excerpt:
I wish you would stay to see what she made of herself
People say you were gone too soon
I see your face when flowers bloom
Through her window
Your baby girl's window

Family Reserve, Lyle Lovett (mentions family and friends)

At the funeral of actress Jean Harlow in June 1937,
Jeanette MacDonald sang The Indian Love Call and
Nelson Eddy sang Ah Sweet Mystery of Life. An organ played Tchaikovsky's None but the Lonely Heart.
Jean Harlow 11x14" Photo Print

Losing Children, Miscarriage: 

Tears In Heaven, Eric Clapton: The song was written about the pain and loss felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor.

I Give You to His Heart, Alison Krauss

Spark, Tori Amos wrote this following a tragic miscarriage


Saluting a hero, a soldier:

Just A Dream, Carrie Underwood, A wife losing her soldier husband, lost chance to grow old together

If You’re Reading This, Tim McGraw, A letter from a soldier to his (pregnant) wife. She’s reading it after he’s died.

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International Firefighters Day is in May On days like these and every day honor all brave folks who risk their lives for others, including volunteers, retired men & women every day of the year.

* The Bravest, Tom Paxton, Fire Fighters 9/11 Heroes on many occasions

* Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) Alan Jackson, 9/11 Tribute

* Davey's Last Picture, Nanci Griffith 

* I Still Miss Someone, Johnny Cash (as with many of these, other artists have versions of this song)

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The Loss of a Sibling or Friend:

* I Drive Your Truck, Lee Brice (the death of a brother)

* Who You'd Be Today Kenny Chesney

* Here Today, Paul McCartney written for John Lennon (see video below)

* Never Without You, Ringo Starr wrote for George Harrison 

* An Original Man (A Song for Keith) by The Yardbirds. Chris Dreja wrote this as a tribute for singer Keith Relf who was killed in an accident

* Fix You, Coldplay (featured at a funeral on the British Comedy Drama, William and Mary) 

A friend went to a memorial service not long ago and was faced with walking on grass in her high heeled shoes. I'd read about these high heel covers. People like them for weddings and picnics. How about other outdoor events. Many of them come with little pouches to carry them in your purse.

Heels Above High Heel Protector 4 Pack- Clear Heels Above is just one version of high heel protector that's on the market. There are others like Starlettos Crystal High Heel Protectors. 





Young@Heart "Wish You Were Here" Pink Floyd 

Songs following sudden deaths, losing someone unexpectedly:

* Wish You Were Here, Mark Wills Deals with the issue of Sudden Death
In this case tells the story of a plane crash, the husband who died is talking to and comforting his wife who survives him.

excerpt:
Wish you were here, wish you could see this place
Wish you were near, I wish I could touch your face
The weather's nice, it's paradise
It's summertime all year and there's some folks we know
They say, Hello. I miss you so, wish you were here.

Reba McEntire dedicated her album, For My Broken Heart, to her road band, most of whom had been killed in an airplane crash. 

Songs include If I Had Only Known, All Dressed Up (with Nowhere to Go) and The Greatest Man I Never Knew. Songs are about many life changes, losing parents, aging, family relationships in general. It is a thoughtful, heartbreaking collection of songs but you may have a good cry.


For much more:
There are more songs and ideas at the main page:
Tributes, Choosing Songs for Events, Remembering Loved Ones, Heroes; Memorials at Weddings, Family Gatherings

We've had the unfortunate experience of having to help plan memorial services suddenly and we've planned them under other circumstances. You want to do right by the individual and everyone is different. There is likely to be a variety of people at a memorial service.

The Beatles getting their hair done

Make it Personal: Big Bird sang at Jim Henson's Memorial Service. Are there favorite songs, songs associated with the person, songs sung by the person you can play on video or audio? Including something uplifting and light, reminiscent of the person's sense of humor may be appropriate. 

We have friends who have more than one memorial with different groups of family and friends. That way you can have a different kind of tribute at different times and different locations.

Here's a short selection of songs that have been sung live at services and/or used for video montages:

* In the Embers, Sleeping at Last
* Before You Go, OK Sweetheart
* Wait, M83
* I Will Remember You, Sarah McLachlan
* Press On, Robinella
* To Live Is To Fly, Townes Van Zandt
* All I Want by Kodaline
* Headlights, Sophie Hunger 
* The Dance, Garth Brooks
* The Cowboy Rides Away, George Strait
* Goodbye, Alabama 
* Slipping Away, Max Merritt 
* What I Already Know, Point of Grace
* Somewhere Over the Rainbow
* He Stopped Loving Her Today, Alan Jackson sang at memorial for George Jones 
 
We can be inspired by the ideas of artists, maybe choose something written by / for songwriters and singers we admire. The song(s) and tone should be appropriate to the person and your relationship. 

At Graham Chapman's Memorial Service in December 1989, fellow Monty Python cast-mates and other friends sang, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. John Cleese delivered a eulogy. (see video below)


Paul McCartney and John Lennon met over 55 years ago. Are you a Beatles fan?...

Here Today
Lyrics excerpts below...



And if I say I really knew you well
what would your answer be
if you were here today

Ooh- Ooh- Ooh- here today
well knowing you,
you’d probably laugh and say that we were worlds apart
if you were here today
Ooh- Ooh- Ooh- here today

But as for me,
I still remember how it was before
and I am holding back the tears no more
Ooh- Ooh- Ooh- I love lou, Ooh ….

Didn’t understand a thing
but we could always sing …..
And if I say I really loved you
and was glad you came along

If you were here today
Ooh- Ooh- Ooh- for you were in my song
Ooh- Ooh- Ooh- Here Today

Coronation Street actress, Betty Driver had pre-planned much of her own service. It included playing a recording of her singing a song herself at a certain point. The song got a standing ovation.


The memorial for legendary puppeteer, film director, writer and producer Jim Henson is inspirational. Song choices were beautiful. May 21, 1990.



The Muppet films have a loyal following as do other Henson film projects such as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. What an amazingly talented man, family and organization. Jim Henson's Creature Shop is now on the SyFy channel.

* When The River Meets the Sea, John Denver
* Bring Him Home from Les Miserables Turn the World Around, Harry Belafonte * The Rainbow Connection; audio recording of Jim Henson's was played
* It's not easy bein' green (Kermit the Frog, The Muppets)

Just One Person (Sesame Street song)
excerpt:
If just one person believes in you,
Deep enough, and strong enough, believes in you...
Hard enough, and long enough,
It stands to reason, that someone else will think
"If he can do it, I can do it."






At Graham Chapman’s Memorial Service in December 1989, Monty Python cast-mates and other friends sang, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam.




John Cleese and Michael Palin spoke at the memorial for fellow Monty Python member Graham Chapman

2013 was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy

Judy Garland's television show ran 1963-1964 

She sang Battle Hymn of the Republic to commemorate the death of JFK at the close of the show no. 16 on December 13, 1963. Cheers echoed throughout Studio 43 and a standing ovation followed.
-- excerpt from video description 

When Judy Garland died in 1969, the mourners at her funeral joined in singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic at her funeral. 


Judy Garland sings Battle Hymn of the Republic, death of President Kennedy, Dec. 13, 1963

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