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‘Losing precious months’: What isolation and lack of touch mean for Washington residents with dementia and their families By Paige Cornwell, The Seattle Times
Published: January 17, 2021, 1:20pm
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Marijo was well into her 80s, but she wasn’t letting her age or her move to an assisted living facility on the Kitsap Peninsula slow her down. She’d visit with her daughter daily, bring home bags of books from the library, where she had great conversations with the librarian, walk along Liberty Bay and point out birds and critters.
She’s gone now. Or the Marijo her family and friends knew, a former school librarian whose worst fear was a dementia diagnosis. She can’t get out of a chair unless someone verbally directs her. She’s largely limited to “yes” and “no.” She’s lost 25 pounds.
JH January 13, 2021 (6:54 am)
Are there any reports of the power outages affecting the school day? Hard to do remote learning without power.
WSB January 13, 2021 (7:04 am)
Nothing so far.
Christopher January 13, 2021 (7:10 am)
Our trampoline is a casualty of the windstorm. Completely busted. The metal arms that support the Safetynet are bent over more than 90°. What’s so crazy is I don’t remember seeing anything about this in the forecast. And the trampoline has survived wind storms before
WSB January 13, 2021 (7:18 am)
The wind advisory wasn’t issued until after 8 pm. I’ve been checking weather alerts frequently lately and everything until then was just rain rain rain. We published the advisory at 9 pm but that’s certainly after many people have stopped reading news for the night …
BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Aegis Living, a leading provider of assisted living and memory care, and Blue Moon Capital Partners LP ("Blue Moon"), a prominent senior housing
Ann K. Dirks, and sharing this remembrance with her community:
Longtime West Seattle resident Ann Kimberly Dirks died peacefully at a local senior care facility on January 3. She was 82.
The mother of five boys, Ann was known for her spirited, outgoing personality and quick humor that helped her develop deep and lasting connections with neighbors, co-workers, friends, and within her large extended family.
Born in Bellingham, Ann moved with her parents, Clair and Alta Smith, to West Seattle as a child. Ann was a 1956 graduate of West Seattle High School and went on to attend Washington State College in Pullman for two years. She married Martin (Marty) Dirks at the West Seattle Baptist Church on October 16, 1959. Marty took an engineering job in New Jersey, where their identical twin sons Greg and Brian were born, but the couple missed their family and friends in Washington so much that they made the cross-country trip back home several months later in their compact sedan.
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