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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Estate Planning Documents and Asset Protection
News and announcements made over the last few years concerning healthcare suggest that obtaining government benefits in the future may be more difficult than they have been in the past. ...