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What do you do when you hear that your mother has been hospitalized and you know she has dementia, even though it has not been diagnosed because your father wasn’t ready to hear the truth? Now, Dad is gone, and you have a situation than can go from bad to worse [...]
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Not everyone can care for an individual who has memory impairment and doesn’t reside in the same reality as the rest of us due to cognitive changes brought on by an organic dementia.
Even family members who have been to classes and seem to understand the process, get caught up in the old relationship. They forget [...]
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Watch this video blog: Research Shows Family Caregivers Want More Education on Caregiving
The National Alliance for Caregiving in collaboration with AARP did an extensive report on “Caregiving in the U.S. 2009”. The report shows that the increase for information and formal caregiver training has increased over the past 5 years.
What family caregivers want is more [...]
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When a family member is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, often little is given to the patient or the family as they all are entering a very long journey of feelings of anger, disbelief, grief, depression, fear and concern.
It would be my ideal that each family who must experience this disease is given a coach to help them [...]
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It is important in communicating with someone who has Alzheimer’s or a related dementia, to know the words they have always used for a room like the toilet – did they say “powder room”, “bathroom”, ”can” or another?
If your family member is going into a care center, retirement community or dementia care facility and they [...]
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How often I have heard from a family member that their mother is in the hospital and seems so confused!
Patients who were functioning fairly well at home often seem unaware, forgetful or anxious when in the hospital. Sometimes there are reports of combative or agitated behavior; or concerns that a patient can no longer function [...]
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When a family member is diagnosed with a progressive dementia, it is challenging not only for the “patient” but even more so for the entire family system. Diseases such as Alzheimer’s impact everyone in the family and sometimes in the community (if the person doesn’t have family).
Those who oversee the care of someone with a [...]
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When a grandchild sees a grandparent losing the capacity to remember and they are less than 10 years of age, it is hard for them to understand what is happening to Grandma or Grandpa.
Try to give the individual with dementia the pleasure of relationship with a younger family member – it just might be the [...]
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Recently, at a class I was teaching, someone asked why her mother with Alzheimer’s dementia would not eat in the skilled nursing home she was in when at home she didn’t have a problem.
Often, in medical and residential facilities, they give the patient too many choices, a challenge for those with dementia. I told her [...]
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A recent study showed that cell phones may decrease an Alzheimer’s like disease in mice. This is startling news, particularly since previous thought had been that cell phone use could cause brain tumors. Could the answer to preventing Alzheimer’s disease really be something so convenient? It sure would be nice!http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AlzheimersNews/cell-phone-radiation-prevent-reverse-alzheimers-mice/story?id=9497387
Here is the link to the [...]
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