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Common Alzheimer’s and Dementia Behaviors: Poor Reasoning & Judgment
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) We develop skills in reasoning and judgment our whole lives. In most healthy individuals, the brain becomes a powerful decision-making machine from our toddler years when we first learn not to touch a hot stove, to our teenage years when we learn how to drive in traffic, […]
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8 Ways to Care for a Loved One with More Compassion
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) You just heard the news. Your loved one just received a life-changing diagnosis, or perhaps they’re just getting “up in age” and need help with daily living. You now find yourself in the role of a caregiver (well, we prefer the term care partner). How can you […]
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Common Alzheimer’s and Dementia Behaviors: Manipulation
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) You hear your brother in the kitchen, fumbling around with some car keys. “Shoot, he found them,” you whisper to yourself as you try to intervene. His doctor estimates he’s in the middle stages of mixed dementia, and everyone on the care-partner team (your brother included) agreed […]
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Common Alzheimer’s and Dementia Behaviors: Collecting & Hiding Things
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Your husband’s out in the living room watching TV, and you’re busy pushing through your chore checklist. In his advancing stages of dementia, it’s been increasingly necessary for you to plan and perform daily tasks. You’re about to put away his laundry and you stumble across one […]
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Is Routine the Key to Good Elder Home Care?
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Knowing how to care for your aging loved one is difficult. Is it better for them to have a regimented routine? Or would it be better to let them (and help them) make decisions that are right for them? The answer may be: It depends. We prefer […]
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Common Alzheimer’s and Dementia Behaviors: Appetite Loss
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Your husband sits at the kitchen table, thumbing through an old golf magazine for the umpteenth time. It’s about noon. You’ve prepared a nice, little lunch for him — just his favorite soup and sandwich. He looks it over, but 20 minutes later the soup is cold […]