It may come seemingly out of the blue: you place your loved one’s favorite tuna sandwich on the table – light on the mayo, no onions – something which usually brings her happiness. But today, she forces the plate away and does not want to take a bite, insisting that you have poisoned the food.
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Loneliness. Confusion. Isolation. These feelings are getting to be common for a number of us during the COVID-19 pandemic, but once you factor in the element of Alzheimer’s, the challenges and frustrations are elevated to an entirely new level, especially for family caregivers providing dementia support.
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Searching through cardboard boxes, cabinets, and closets, pulling out assorted items from drawers, and searching repetitively through many different items could be frustrating for anyone providing care for a senior loved one with Alzheimer’s, but in reality, these dementia-related behaviors are fulfilling an objective.
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Times of crisis may sometimes bring out both the best as well as the worst in us. All through the coronavirus pandemic, we have heard stories of individuals hoarding items and selling them to make an outrageous profit, coupled with stories of heroes who selflessly met the needs of others despite their own fears.
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An individual who exhibits loss of memory, confusion, poor judgment, repetition, and problems with performing daily activities has the telltale symptoms of
Alzheimer’s disease, right? In fact, what seems like a clear-cut case of Alzheimer’s may in fact be a recently discovered dementia.
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Agitation is one of the more challenging hurdles to overcome when dealing with
dementia, and can be exceedingly frustrating for family members to manage. One of the keys is in taking steps to handle agitation before it is felt and conveyed by the older adult, which involves keeping tabs on what has triggered these feelings in the past, and creating a home environment in which those stimulants are eliminated or minimized.
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The complicated steps required to enable us to see are mind-boggling. In the blink of an eye, our brains can take transmitted information on the environment around us, interpret that information based on input from other senses, memories, and thoughts, and then create an understanding of the information to make us aware of what we are seeing.
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Looking after a person you love with
dementia is certainly nothing to laugh about. Yet scientific studies are frequently pointing to the benefits associated with humor, and incorporating it into dementia care may be precisely what the doctor ordered to boost total well-being for your aging parent.
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After sixteen very long years with no truly viable
treatment plans for Alzheimer’s, there’s some optimism on the horizon, in a stunning reversal from the formerly-rejected antibody therapy, aducanumab. The most recent research uncovers that large quantities of this medication do, in fact, lessen cognitive decline at the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s.
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Knowing the warning signs of Alzheimer’s can help in determining whether or not it is necessary to consult with a qualified physician. Here are the top 3 warning signs of Alzheimer’s.
1. Short-term memory loss
Someone suffering from Alzheimer’s may have a difficult time remembering information that was just given to them.
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