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Wire Your Brain for Happiness
Caregiver’s guide to choosing healthful comfort food
Names, Faces and Other Memory Challenges
How to Avoid a Fall
Learn a new hobby, stay sharp
Identifying dysphagia, seeking care
Solving Sleep Problems for Patients and Caregivers
What to read or recommend to dementia patients
Hoarding and its Link to Dementia
Drinking Water is Good for Dementia
Medication-taking tips for dementia patients
Family Connect opens new memory care home in Solvang. A labor of Love…
How dementia affects appetite
Design menus around finger foods
Take yourself, or a loved one, on a joy ride
How to recognize and ease anxiety in those suffering from dementia
Anxiety. Even the word starts to make me feel a little anxious.
Nervousness. Sweaty palms. Uneasiness. Fear of what’s coming, often something we can’t control.
Respect is the key to communicating with those with dementia
I’m fascinated by how we learn to communicate. We start naturally by developing language skills as infants through our interaction with others. We develop comprehension long before we begin to speak. We have, quite literally, been communicating through language our whole lives.
Wandering and Behavioral Changes in Older Adults
One of the toughest challenges of caring for an aging loved one is behavioral changes. Just as everyone ages, people also will change behaviors over time. These changes can be deliberate, such as a decision to start exercising or quitting coffee drinking.
Memory issues also can be a cause of new and disturbing behaviors. These often appear as changes in what our loved ones do or say.
When a loved one with dementia ‘wants to go home’
These five simple words can be very tough to hear from any loved one. We never want the people we care about to feel uneasy, unsafe, or scared. And understandably, “I want to go home” seems like code for “I am uncomfortable and nervous; I want to be out of this situation immediately; I don’t feel safe.”
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