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 ...
Body Language: Ways Caretakers Can “Read” What Loved Ones Need
As one might imagine, Alzheimer’s disease complicates communications between caregivers and their loved ones. Those individuals who display the more advanced symptoms of the disease can easily forget how to ...
Advance Directives
If you have a family member that was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and you fear that you may one day develop the condition, then you may want to consider creating ...
Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD) and Heredity
As you spend more and more time treating a loved one—especially a family member—who’s been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, you may begin to wonder whether or not you could potentially develop ...
Combating Sleeplessness
As with most people, insomnia can seriously impact the overall health of your loved one and result in serious health and safety concerns. Institutions such as the Mayo Clinic define ...
The Evaluation Question
While you’d think it goes without saying you should seek an evaluation for your loved one just as soon as he or she shows initial symptoms of Alzheimer’s or dementia, ...
Environment and Agitation
Like most people, individuals coping with Alzheimer’s or dementia tend to experience elevated levels and stress when introduced to an uncomfortable or unfamiliar environment. As you assist your loved one ...
Stages of Grief: Accepting Alzheimer’s as a Life Condition
Anyone who’s lived through the experience of receiving bad news about a loved one’s condition knows what traumatic and life-altering experience this can be. Whether an individual learns that a ...
Alzheimer’s and Alcohol
As your loved one begins displaying obvious signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s, you will undoubtedly begin considering how you might make adjustments to his or her daily life to ensure ...