Pick’s Disease and Your Loved One Behavior
While Pick’s Disease may not be extremely common among the general population, those with loved ones who suffer from the disease would be loath to say the disease is not an issue of utmost importance. According to the National Institute of Health, Pick’s Disease is a rare form of dementia [...]
Long Term Care Options: Medicaid v Medicare
Because laws concerning the availability of benefits for seniors seem to continually change and make situations more and more complicated—consider the effects of The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005—it’s helpful to take a moment from time to time to revisit some of the fundamentals of both Medicaid and Medicare benefit [...]
Understanding Your Loved One’s Feelings of Embarrassment
Have you ever run into someone at an extended family gathering, business function, or other social event and found yourself at a loss for the name of someone you’ve previously met? Worse yet, did that person remember your name and a special detail about you even though you didn’t recognize [...]
Life Expectancy and Medicare
Are you one of the millions of senior Americans who pay attention to health issues? As a younger adult—and now as a senior one—did exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables, and take vitamins or other nutritional supplements on a daily basis? If so, then believe it [...]
Coping with Your Loved One’s Nurturing Compulsions
Those with Alzheimer’s disease whose conditions have progressed to the later stages may ask to see loved ones who are no longer in their daily lives. For instance, many Alzheimer’s patients in their later stages—especially mothers—ask to see their children even though their children have grown-up, moved-out, and now live [...]
Inappropriate Undressing
Because individuals with Alzheimer’s and dementia can regularly experience feelings of disorientation and confusion, they sometimes engage in behaviors that seem inappropriate to their surroundings. While some these behaviors—such as wandering—can result in circumstances most of us would prefer to avoid, other seemingly inappropriate behaviors—such as undressing—do not have as [...]
Feeding Tube Concerns
As your loved one starts showing symptoms generally associated with the more advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, you’ll likely start to consider making some adjustments to the way you feed him or her. Since food may easily pocket in your loved one’s throat causing him or her to cough or [...]
Communicating a Diagnosis to Family Members
From time to time, caregivers have questions about the best way to communicate the diagnosis of a loved one to other family members. Indeed, news of a diagnosis can be unsettling and disturbing to family members, so such a situation should be handled with care. Because every individual handles news [...]