Top ways to help a veteran with dementia on Memorial day

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The Dementia Caregiver's Little Book of Hope [Kindle Edition]

• Veterans who suffer from various forms of dementia, including Alzheimer disease, often have very specific care needs. It is important that these veterans are cared for by people who understand their condition and have the appropriate instruction and skills. Therefore encourage family members of veterans to gain the training they need to care for their loved one with dementia.
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• For those in nursing homes and other institutions, make sure veterans with dementia are visited often. All people, including those with memory loss, need human contact. They need to be hugged. They need to hear your voice. They may not know you but as long as you know who they are, that's all that matters.
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• Talk to them about their service to our country. Often they will share stories with you because their time in the service made a huge impression on them 
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• Tell them how proud you are of them. Thank them for their service. This is sure to make them feel good. Most likely, it will make them smile
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• Smile with a veteran. Laughter is wonderful medicine.
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• Sing patriotic songs with a veteran with dementia. Often they will be able o sing many familiar songs even though, they may not be able to speak.
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• Read to them. Have them read to you. Large simple statements are best.
• Share pictures with them, especially large colorful ones
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• Make a visitor's packet for them.
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• For more ideas on things you can do with a veteran or anyone with dementia on this Memorial Day or any day, read the book, Adorable Photographs of Our Baby-Meaningful, Mind-Stimulating Activities and More for the Memory Challenged, 
• Their Loved Ones, and Involved Professionals 
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• So please remember all our veterans on Memorial Day including those with dementia

Recipes with hot dogs

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Hot dog corn muffins

 

 

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• 2 (8.5 ounce) packages cornbread mix
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 eggs

• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1 cup grated Cheddar cheese
• 9 hot dogs, cut in half

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Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease muffin tins.
2. Stir together the cornbread mix and the brown sugar in a large bowl. Whisk the eggs and milk in a small bowl until smooth. Fold the eggs and cheese into the dry mixture until moistened. Spoon mixture into muffin tins until 2/3 full. Add 1 hot dog half to each muffin.
3. Bake in a preheated oven 14 to 18 minutes, or until golden brown.

Pigs in a blanket

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8 hot dogs                                                   

 

 

• 4 slices American cheese, each cut into 6 strips

• 1 (8 ounce) can Pillsbury® refrigerated crescent dinner rolls

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Directions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Slit hot dogs to within 1/2 inch of ends; insert 3 strips of cheese into each slit.
2. Separate dough into triangles. Wrap dough triangle around each hot dog. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, cheese side up.
3. Bake 12-15 min or until golden brown.

 

Potato hot dogd       

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• 4 hot dogs
• 2 cups prepared mashed potatoes

• 4 slices American cheese

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Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Slit hot dogs lengthwise down the center, but do not cut in half. Spread them open, and place them in a 9x9 inch square baking dish. Pile an equal amount of the mashed potatoes onto each hot dog.
3. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Turn the oven off, and remove the dish of hot dogs. Place one slice of cheese onto each one, and return them to the oven until the cheese has melted.

Cold hot dog salad




8 hot dogs (any variety)                                     

1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed

1/2 lb penne pasta

1/4 cup brown mustard

1/4 cup ketchup

1/4 cup relish

1/2 teaspoon chili powder                            

Directions

Cook pasta according to directions and set aside.

1. Cut hotdogs on the diagonal into 1/4 inch pieces and combine in a mixing bowl with the chilli powder until pieces are evenly coated.
2. In a pan on high heat, brown both/all sides of the dogs.
3. Add hotdogs to the pasta with the beans and remaining condimants and cool in refrigerator for 4 hours. Could also be served hot I suppose.
4. Try adding chopped tomatoes too. Also good to try without ketchup and adding saurkraut and extra mustard.

 
 

How are hot dogs made

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Nibble

 

A little background is in order here. What exactly goes into a hot dog? The Federal Standards of Identity tell us that a hot dog (a.k.a. frankfurter or wiener) is a link-shaped, cooked and/or smoked sausage.

• A hot dog contains meat, fat, water (sometimes in the form of ice chips), and spices, including salt. The meat can be all beef or a blend.
• The finished hot dogs cannot contain more than 30% fat nor more than 10% added water, or a combination of 40% fat and added water. Non-meat binders or extenders (such as nonfat dry milk, cereal, or dried whole milk) or isolated soy protein may be added, but not more than 3.5% of the former or 2% of the latter; and where either is added the ingredient label on the product must indicate this.
• Hot dogs are cooked in a casing, or thin skin, to keep their shape. A skinless hot dog is one in which the manufacturer has removed the casing prior to sale. The casing may have been cellulose (vegetable material) or natural, made from animal intestine. Casings are edible, although many people don’t like the extra texture. If the hot dog has a casing, the package label must state if the casing is of a different species than the meat it’s made of (for example, a pork casing on a beef hot dog).
• Up to 15% of a hot dog can be so-called “variety meats” such as heart, kidney, or liver; again, if a hot dog includes these, the label must say so.
• There are also ingredients in very small quantities such as corn syrup, the artificial sweetener sorbitol, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), and corn and wheat gluten protein (these are binders which hold water and lessen costs for manufacturers).
• Then, there are the colorings, maintainers, and preservatives, such as sodium lactate (an inhibitor of pathogens), sodium diacetate (also inhibits the growth of bacteria), sodium phosphate (the salt of a phosphoric acid used to bind water to meat), sodium erythorbate (along with ascorbic acid, this increases the speed of the nitrite reaction in the curing process), nitrates (potassium and sodium), and sodium nitrite.
• Although many people can bring themselves to ignore the rest of the sometimes-questionable list of ingredients in a hot dog, sodium nitrite and nitrates get everyone’s attention in a way you don’t want if you’re a hot dog manufacturer.

Organic hot dogs, on the other hand, are all-natural, have no fillers, preservatives, variety meats, nitrites or other preservatives. Read more about them in the Organic Hot Dogs section.

Here’s the answer to why the number of hot dogs per package don’t match the number of rolls per package:

Initially, hot dogs, as sausages, were sold in butcher shops by the pound. Hot dog bun manufacturers independently began to package eight rolls together. In 1940, when first began to package hot dogs, they chose to sell them by the pound, which yielded ten pieces. That’s logical; as to why the bread manufacturers didn’t add another two buns to their packages is not. Perhaps a consumer write-in campaign might help.

History of the hot dog

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Nibble

 

The history of the hot dog explains the terms frankfurter and wiener. The hot dog traces its lineage to the 15th-century Viennese sausage, or wienerwurst in German. Johann Georghehner, a butcher from the German city of Coburg, in Bavaria, is credited with inventing the “dachshund” or “little dog” sausage in the 17th century, and brought it to Frankfurt. Yet, it was still a sausage eaten with a knife and fork, no bun.

The hot dog, a slender sausage in a bun, was undeniably an American invention. The attribution is given to a German immigrant named Charles Feltman, who began selling sausages in rolls at a stand in Coney Island in 1871. The 1893 World Exposition in Chicago marked the debut of the hot dog vendor. According to National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, around this time that the hot dog first made its first appearance at a ballpark, at a St. Louis Browns. The first published mention of the term “hot dog” as a food first appeared in print in a September 1893 issue of The Knoxville Journal. However, it was well established prior to then.

How did your Mother's day go?

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Activities directors, other healthcare professionals and caregivers, here are some pictures from our Mother'd Day event

We enjoy good food and conversation while the piano player plays music we love

We have a resident choral group. They always perform on Mother's Day at a tea for residents and their families

WHAT A GREAT START TO NATIONAL NURSING HOME WEEK!

A Mother's Day Devotional

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Activities directors, other healthcare professionals and caregivers, here is a Mother's Day devotional from
Faithful Friends
Nursing Home Ministry

Half of what I think I know about mothers comes from having one. The other half comes from being married to one. In fact, I probably know more about my mother from being married to my sons' mother for twenty-two years. Here are the key things I've learned:
Mothers are the people who take Jesus at His word when He says to forgive each other "seventy times seven."

Mothers are the ones who still believe in you when everyone else begins to doubt.

Never get between a mother and her cubs. Even if you are the father, you lose.

The best gift you can give your children is to love their mother.

A mother's prayers are more powerful than any force on earth or in heaven.

A father may know best, but a mother cares best, and children will pick caring over knowing every time.

We may pray to "Our Father," but the face of God we see, the hand of God we clutch, and the heart of God we trust, belongs to our mothers.

Lord, thanks for giving us mothers so that we can see, hold, and hear You more clearly.

By Eric Fellman - Devotional From Daily Guideposts


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Her children rise up and call her blessed. . . . Proverbs 31:28 (RSV)

An activity just in time for Mother's Day

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Mother's day is all about love.

Here are some ideas for discussion questions about love.

They are ideal for lower functioning residents but can be easily adapted for higher functioning ones

They are all about a baby,love and people who love the baby as well as other things

They love our baby
Who loves the baby?
If the participants need help say;
Does the baby’s brother love him?
Does his mother love him?
Do you love the baby?
Who else loves the baby?
Possible responses and opportunities for discussion: father, sister, aunt, uncle, friend, dog, cat, etc. Have a discussion about people in one or more of the participant’s family.

What else do you love?
If the participants need help say;
I love ice cream, how about you?
Possible responses(which are almost endless) and opportunities for discussion: pizza or any other food, roses or any type of flower, watching television, singing a song, etc.
Have a discussion about any one or more of these things.
Sing one or more love songs. Recite a poem about love, something as simple as Roses are Red, etc.