Tips for Traveling with Someone with Dementia
Traveling with someone with dementia can be challenging and stressful. However, it is generally possible with careful planning to ensure safety and a sense of security and comfort. Caregivers need to plan well in advance for travel and carefully assess the person's limitations as well as their own. It may be helpful to consult travel professionals and health care professionals about the best possible methods to travel while causing the least distress to the person...
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Mealtime Tips
Hydration Tips
Strategies for Bathing
There are many practical strategies that caregivers can use when a person with Alzheimer’s disease is reluctant or refuses to bathe.
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Ten things you should consider after a family member has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Holiday Tips
Gift Ideas
Making Visits More Meaningful
Nutrition Tips
Communication Tips
These tips for communicating with someone with dementia can improve the relationship between the caregiver and care recipient, and lead to better quality of care.
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If your care recipient with dementia has trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, consider these non-pharmacologic approaches for improving sleep before or in conjunction with pharmacologic approaches.
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Activity-focused care means incorporating meaningful activity into the daily lives of those with dementia to benefit the care recipient as well as the caregiver.
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Effective caregiving takes: Knowledge of Alzheimer's disease, people, human behavior; Skill in interpersonal relations and with caregiving techniques...
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