Simple word games dementia

Activities as simple as structured discussion groups and word games can benefit memory and thinking for people with Alzheimer’s or dementia.

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Simple Structured Discussions and Word Games Beneficial for People with Dementia

Dementia Patient Won't Go to Social Daycare

How do you get a person living with Dementia to go to adult day care?

One of our readers wrote:

Oh how I wish she would go! She calls it "Granny Day Care" and refuses to go.

I wanted her to go over a year ago. I told her recently that she would have made some new friends by now but she wants no part of it. I think they could accommodate the visual impairment there as well as the cognitive impairment.

She doesn't see herself as an older person, but she's 87!

Shaking my head....

Agitation in Elderly Dementia Patients

Research provides the best evidence to date that the late-day anxiety and agitation sometimes seen in older institutionalized adults, especially those with dementia, has a biological basis in the brain.

Dementia Caregiver Do's and Dont's

Visiting loved ones in their nursing homes is essential for both your and their well being.

Google - arguing with alzheimer patient

Make eye contact. Always approach a person living with dementia face-to-face and make eye contact.

Dementia Does Not Like Water

Water is nearly invisible and disconcerting to the typical dementia patient. They don't like to drink it, and they don't like to get in it.

Alzheimer's World, Real World

As a person becomes deeply forgetful many of the actions they perform seem to be irrational to those of us who believe we are living in a rational world. For purposes of this discussion lets call rational world -- Real World.

Original content +Bob DeMarco , +Alzheimer's Reading Room