Just a quick update on a smartphone app I reviewed back in March for Caregivers. I was happy to learn that CareZone released its Android app just last week! It can be picked up at the bargain price of … FREE!! at Google Play. If you’re an Android user, I really recommend you check out this app. Of those that I’ve looked it, it’s far and above anything else available. Extremely robust, high usability, and new features in the pipeline all the time! Go get it!!
If you’re a caregiver, you are most likely looking for any and every time saver you can find. Here’s a great tip from an excellent time management seminar I attended today!
Are you tired of automated phone systems? Just want to talk to a human being, but pressing ‘0’ doesn’t get you there? Well, gethuman.com will soon be your friend! The site lists bypass codes for hundreds of companies and organizations (including the government agencies). AND, if they don’t have the info, they’ll get it for you!
Say goodbye to confusing menu options and farewell to frustration! Finally, you can talk to a human being without wading through layers and layers of menus and instructions!
It’s both wonderful and encouraging to know that two films featured at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival are helping to shine the spotlight on Alzheimer’s. This is the very sort of exposure we need to bring a critically important issue to the forefront, while giving it a human face and removing the stigma that comes with the disease.
The first, Pat XO, is a documentary produced by the great Robin Roberts. As I watched the trailer, I couldn’t help but smile. What an incredible idea to hand out video cameras to those closest to Pat Summitt and ask them to talk about this legend – the winningest coach in all of college basketball. I truly cannot wait to see this film! Coach Summitt is an inspiration in so many ways.
Also at Tribeca this year, the premiere of The Genius of Marian, a son’s intimate portrait of his mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s.
It’s remarkable film, not only for the obvious affection with which it was made, but as art. The downward trajectory of a woman in the grip of ever-worsening dementia provides only so many opportunities for visual storytelling. And while White and Fitch do have wonderful archival material to work with – their subject, Pam White, was a model, and the footage of her as a young woman sparkles in its poignancy. But for a great deal of the film, White is creating something out of imagery that occurs with a seeming randomness, but which ultimately coheres in a way that’s quite moving and singular: As well it should. Pam White isn’t a medical statistic, she’s a person with a history, albeit one that’s slipping away, at least from her.
Three cheers for Robin Roberts and ESPN, filmmaker Banker White, and of course the Tribeca Film Festival for bringing much needed attention to our fight.
Just a quick update on a smartphone app I reviewed back in March for Caregivers. I was happy to learn that CareZone released its Android app just last week! It can be picked up at the bargain price of … FREE!! at Google Play. If you’re an Android user, I really recommend you check out this app. Of those that I’ve looked it, it’s far and above anything else available. Extremely robust, high usability, and new features in the pipeline all the time! Go get it!!
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