7 Ways to Cope with Dementia Patient Who are Aggressive, Angry or Mean

Studies indicate that agitation or aggression is seen in up to 80 percent of Alzheimer's patients.By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomI think about Alzheimer's, dementia, agitation, and meanness all the time. Why?Agitation or aggression can lead to an Alzheimer's patient being placed in a nursing home, or a memory care facility.6 reasons why you might have to put someone with dementia in a memory care facilityHere are 7 ways to decrease, manage, and cope with difficult behaviors on the part of Alzheimer's and dementia patients.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading - This is a Free Service - Join Now1. Frequent Urinary Tract Infections make dementia patients mean, aggressive, angry and hard to manage.It took me years to discover that my mom, Dotty, was suffering from frequent urinary tract infections. The failure to understand and realize thiscaused an enormous amount of stress and anxiety for both of us.Undetected UTIs in dementia are common, and most caregivers will tell you they lived a "miserble" life until they learned how to control them.My mom's core temperature was 97.6. So when we went to the doctor and the nurse got a reading of 98.4, the perception was that Dotty was fine and dandy. It was only by accident that we discovered the problem. I asked our doctor to check my mother's hydration level. The results showed that she was hydrated; the result also showed that Dotty had a urinary tract infection.An undetected UTI even after she had been examined by both a physici...
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