Once I get done giving you some advice from an actual person that lived with Alzheimer's, I am going to go eat.
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Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Triggers That Make Alzheimers Worse
A Bing keyword search of the following words
triggers that make alzheimers worse
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yielded this article from the
Alzheimer's Reading Room
To learn more about Alzheimer's and Dementia care visit the Alzheimer's Reading Room
Bing Search - how to clean dementia teeth
A reader searched Bing using these keywords,
how to clean dementia teeth.
The reader then selected this article from the Alzheimer's Reading Room.
Trying to get your parent or spouse to cooperate with mouth care is a trial. Hearing the person you love tell you “no,” having him or her heap verbal garbage on you, or even push you away just hurts.
My husband asks the same the same question over and over again
My primary advice in this type of situation is to feel empathy for your loved one who can’t remember the answer to what must be for him or her a critical question.
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What to Do When Your Loved One Asks You the Same Question Over and Over
To learn more about Alzheimer's and Dementia care visit the Alzheimer's Reading Room
AOL Keyword Search - dementia patient mean
How can you get a person living with dementia to stop saying mean and hurtful things to you?
It is not unusual for Alzheimer's dementia caregivers to search for information on meanness.
A reader searched AOL using these keywords
dementia patient mean.
As one of the alternatives AOL offered up this headline and the reader went to the Alzheimer's Reading Room to read,
When Dementia Patients Say Mean Things, What Can You Do?
How to Express Sympathy to a Friend Grieving the Death of a Loved One
How can you comfort someone grieving the death of a loved one? What can you say that might adequately offer solace? "I'm sorry" doesn't seem to cut it.
Good list of Do's and Don't.
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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.
A Yahoo keyword search from a person looking for information on dementia and word games lead to the following article in the Alzheimer's Reading Room.
Yahoo Keywords - Simple word games dementia
Simple Structured Discussions and Word Games Beneficial for People with Dementia
Activities for Dementia Patients
A search of Google using these keywords
activities for dementia patients,
led to the following suggested articles.
More than half of Alzheimer's and dementia patients had inadequate meaningful daily activities at a senior center or at home.
Socialization and Alzheimers Disease
The following keyword search on Google
lead the reader to this article.
socialization and alzheimers disease
lead the reader to this article.
Google Search - Short Term Memory Problems
One of the first signs of dementia is short term memory loss. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia; and, a cause of short term memory problems.
Frigid weather can pose special risks to older adults
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has some advice for helping older people avoid hypothermia—when the body gets too cold—during cold weather.
Older adults are especially vulnerable to hypothermia because their bodies’ response to cold can be diminished by underlying medical conditions such as diabetes and by use of some medicines, including over-the-counter cold remedies.
Hypothermia can develop in older adults after relatively short exposure to cold weather or even a small drop in temperature.
Leaving Alzheimer's Alone at Home
It took me a while to understand how my mother might be feeling when I went out and left her alone at home.
Persons living with Alzheimer's or a related dementia often become mean or agitated when left alone even for a very small amount of time.
A reader searched Google using these keywords
leaving altzhmers alone at home
Can you leave a person living with Alzheimer's alone?
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.
Tips to Avoid the The Flu - Flu is Spreading Across the United States
Most of the country is now experiencing high levels of influenza like illness (Flu) according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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| Courtesy of the CDC http://www.cdc.gov |
Mayo Clinic specialists are offering advice and dispelling some misconceptions about the influenza to help people stay healthy.
This is Not the Person I Knew
In order to communicate effectively with a person living with Alzheimer's disease you need to come to an understanding that they are now living in a new world -- I refer to this as Alzheimer's World.
Alzheimer's Reading Room Red Plate
The following search on Google
returned these suggested articles.
Alzheimer's reading room red plate
returned these suggested articles.
Sudden Decline in Elderly Alzheimers Patient
One of the things that makes Alzheimer's different is that is impossible to know at what rate any given patient will experience cognitive decline.
This state of "unknowing" is disconcerting to Alzheimer's caregivers, and makes Alzheimer's caregiving all the more difficult.
High Fiber Foods That Make You Poop
Eating high-fiber foods helps you stay fuller longer, keeps you regular, and boosts colon health.
Getting enough fiber can be a challenge, but one certainly worth taking on.
Dr Oz talks about poop on his show regularly. It just never stops amazing me how many people have trouble pooping. Dr Oz wouldn't be spending so much time on poop unless it was a big problem.
Note, the majority of Dr Oz's viewers are women.
Alzheimers Tests B12
The Framingham Offspring Study found that Vitamin B12 Deficiency is a big problem.
How bad?
As many as forty percent of the population might be at risk of a vitamin B12 deficiency.
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