The Importance of Routine in Your Loved One’s Day to Day Life
Routine plays an extremely important role in the day-to-day well being of your loved one. As Alzheimer’s disease progresses and impairs your loved one’s memory—preventing him or her from remembering basic things (such as names, faces, and even favorite places)—your loved one may experience elevated levels of stress or frustration. [...]
Uncommunicated Pain: a Vicious Emotional Cycle
Communication plays a tremendously important role in day to day life. Consider that when any of us experience anxiety, frustration, or aches and pain, we have the ability to communicate these feelings to our friends and loved ones to get the help we need. Many of us take the ability [...]
Managing Guilt
As a caretaker, you will undoubtedly experience an array of emotions when providing your loved one with day to day care. Some days, you will feel joy and appreciation while other days, you will feel a host of other emotions—emotions that are not necessarily welcome. Negative emotions such as frustration, [...]
The Medicaid Bomb
Recently, planners have advertised, promoted, and nearly shouted about a type of planning known as VA planning. VA planning plays an extremely important role in determining benefit eligibility. Typically, these types of VA planners—the ones you hear about through advertisements—work to ensure individuals receive the most benefits available to them [...]
Effective Communication with Your Loved One
Since Alzheimer’s affects your loved one’s ability to remember words, phrases, and even every day names or faces, you’ll probably want to think about developing a communication style that takes these constraints into consideration. For instance, because your loved one can easily misinterpret words or phrases, to avoid any undue [...]
Facts and Figures: Empowering Caregivers with Information
The responsibility of caring for a loved one’s physical, emotional, and mental needs while also tending to his or her financial needs has the potential to be overwhelming. Those providing care for their loved ones who have Alzheimer’s disease or dementia may find comfort in the fact that they’re not [...]
Positive Personality Changes
As you read studies on Alzheimer’s disease and spend more time around individuals who’ve had the condition for extended periods of time, you may start to wonder how your loved one’s personality may (or may not) be affected as the disease progresses. Since many individuals with Alzheimer’s disease do undergo [...]
Types of Wandering
Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease often engage in behavior that strike outside observers as peculiar. Luckily, these peculiar behaviors, by and large, are completely harmless and do not pose a safety concern. Sometimes though, a behavior can lead a loved far away from home and into circumstances that may but him [...]