Are People with Dementia Mean?
The list of difficult behaviors that dementia patients express in the mid stage of the disease are long, and sometimes never ending.
Dotty
95 Years old
These mean spirited episodes with my mother went on for years before they stopped.
However, I was never deterred by her mean spirited behavior because I made a decision from the very beginning - I am going to put a stop to this.
Finally, I threw the book away and started thinking. And then it happened. I realized something had to change, and that something was me.
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 28, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
‘Memory Cafes’ For Dementia Patients
A growing number of communities are creating places for people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia -- and their caregivers -- to socialize and share a meal.
A growing number of communities are creating places for people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia -- and their caregivers -- to socialize and share a meal.
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What's the Difference Between Alzheimer's and Dementia?
In a nutshell, dementia is a symptom, and AD is the cause of the symptom. When someone is told they have dementia, it means that they have significant memory problems as well as other cognitive...
Source: CareGiver, The - October 25, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Dotty Never Knew
Dotty never knew she had Alzheimer's.
In the beginning when I was trying to explain this to her one of three things happened -- she got angry and said mean things to me, she started crying, or she went into the bedroom and wouldn't come out.
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 24, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Yahoo Keyword Search - happy even with dementia
How to create happiness in a world filled with Alzheimers and dementia.
How do you keep an Alzheimer's patient happy?
As many of you know, I am always looking for ways to keep Dotty happy. How to keep her "more there".
They really go hand in hand.
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 23, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Bing Keyword Search - Best walker for a person with dementia
The results are astounding. They walk more often than you’ve seen them walk in some time because they feel better, safer, more independent and more EMPOWERED than they did.
Do you know why many older adults (with and without Alzheimer’s) take little tiny steps, try to walk by keeping their feet underneath them and shuffle their feet, not picking them up off of the ground (Parkinson’s patients exempted here)?
There is one reason: FEAR OF FALLING.
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 19, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Google Keyword Search - dementia fear abandonment
When I left Dotty alone she quickly became scared, confused, anxious, and I soon learned she feared that I was going to abandon her.
Dotty, 95 years old
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 18, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Bing Keyword Search - questions to test memory
In a clinical trial involving 679 people, TYM detected 93 percent of people with Alzheimer's.
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 17, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Google Search - what comes first demetia or alzheimers
There is great confusion about the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
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This confusion is felt on the part of patients, family members, the media, and even healthcare providers. The article provides information to reduce the confusion by defining and describing these two common and often poorly understood terms.
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 15, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
I Believe in You
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 12, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
The Alzheimer's Supper Club
For people with dementia and those caring for them, peer gatherings can help foster acceptance.
Also, most Alzheimer's support groups are for caregivers, not for people living with dementia. And these couples wanted to stay together, with those giving the care side by side with those receiving it. So they started a supper club, humorously called the Wild Bunch. Once a month, the couples meet at one of their homes, casseroles and wine bottles in hand, to swap stories, trade jokes and have a good time.
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 10, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
the Deeply Forgetful
Ask yourself, what are you doing and how are you reacting when someone living with Alzheimer's says something you know to be incorrect or untrue?
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Communicating with the Deeply Forgetful
If you have not done so already I suggest you read, or even reread, these two articles.
Communicating in Alzheimer's World
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 8, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
AOL Search - hospice crisis team
Hospice Crisis Care is provided by a team of hospice nurses and other team members, in home, for as much as 24 hours a day.
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 4, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Yahoo search - how to deal with dementia behaviors
I read these six coping strategies for dementia-related behavior problems some time ago.
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People with dementia often exhibit behaviors that are frustrating, embarrassing, and sometimes even dangerous to the caregiver and others.
These may include angry outbursts, agitation, aggression, wandering, vocalizations, hoarding or hiding things, and inappropriate sexual behavior. For many caregivers, these difficult behaviors ar...
Source: CareGiver, The - October 3, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
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Caregivers -- The Alzheimer's Project on HBO
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 3, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Yahoo Search - Tactics for Alzheimers Patients
You can continue to hit your head against the wall if you want to, but all you end up getting is a headache!
The Alzheimer’s Caregiver as Gumby http://t.co/XMHVDMsLz7 #health #gumby #endalz #alzheimersreadingroom pic.twitter.com/yRpHB2ikdA
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The Alzheimer’s Caregiver as Gumby
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Source: CareGiver, The - October 1, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
