How to Keep Your Loved One With Dementia Safe at Home Living with someone with dementia can be challenging. It is emotionally draining and physically exhausting to care for an adult who, due to dementia, may not remember you, or isn’t aware of his or her limitations. Of course, there are rewards to ...
How To Deal With Challenging Behaviors That Can Come With Alzheimer’s Disease Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease can pose many challenges. Not only is it difficult to handle the emotions that go with seeing a loved one go through such a difficult disease, but there are several out of character behaviors ...
Knowing the Risks of Wandering and How to Protect Your Parent with Alzheimer’s Disease If you are a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s disease, you are probably familiar with “wandering.” Wandering is a persistent behavior where a person with Alzheimer’s disease moves around the environment with seemingly no purpose or awareness of ...
How Caregivers Can Make Mealtime a Success If you are caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, you know that mealtimes can be challenging. Depending on the phase they are in, they can have problems remembering to eat or have problems swallowing. Caregivers need to find ways to manage their changing needs. ...
Understanding the language changes in Alzheimer’s disease and how caregivers can cope. One of the challenges of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease is effectively communicating with them. They may have difficulty expressing their needs or the caregiver may not know how to address their changing ability. Caregivers can also get annoyed ...
How to Encourage a Person with Dementia to Continue Activities of Daily Living and Self Care While it may seem like you are helping, it is important for caregivers to allow their caree the opportunity to perform as many activities of daily living as they can. Even with physical and cognitive decline, there ...
June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, so to honor those families affected by the diseases, I plan to share caregiving tips for those caring for someone with dementia more frequently this month. With Alzheimer’s disease, once a skill is lost, it can’t be regained, so it is critical to keep your ...
People who have memory loss thrive on routine. It is comforting to them to have familiarity in their day-to-day, particularly as they begin to lose their ability to plan. Having a routine also can prevent a person with dementia from getting distracted and forgetting what they were doing. While you may not ...
We have all had that moment when we walk into a room and can’t for the life of us remember why we walked into that room. If you are younger than 70 years old, you probably think, sheesh, I am so scatterbrained! Why did I come in here? Sadly, I have seen many of ...
How to ensure you are still a loved one and not just the caregiver. I have worked with many dementia and Alzheimer’s disease patients and their families and while I truly enjoyed the experience, I saw how challenging it was for their family members. It can be so difficult to watch a once vibrant, smart, ...
