Behavior Management How to Manage the Challenging Behaviors of Alzheimer’s Disease From Carrie Hill, PhD, former About.com Guide Updated February 28, 2008 About.com Health’s Disease and Condition content is reviewed by the Medical Review Board Alzheimer’s disease affects the way a person thinks, how a person feels, and how a person behaves; therefore, caring for […]
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Below is the introduction to my free eBook on the subject of wandering. I want to warn you its going to be a couple of days before it is available, but you will be able to sign up for my FREE newsletter and when it is ready, it will be emailed to each and everyone […]
If you have been here before and have not signed up for my FREE (but infrequent) newsletter, before you continue, please jump over to WWW.EASYCAREGIVING.COM and sign up, it will take you less than a minute. Part three of our series is about problems with bathing. Bathing is almost universally a dreaded caregiver chore. I […]
Day to day caregiving is difficult enough. However when dealing with Alzheimer’s, the very nature of this disease and the way it affects the brain frequently have added frustrations and difficulties, which make Caregiver’s lives just that much more difficult. Our mission at http://www.easycaregiving.com is to make sure you have every advantage possible. Please join […]
I’m on the speakers bureau of the Alzheimer’s Association and this weekend I am giving a talk on “Partnering with Your Doctor” In the materials that the Alzheimer’s Association provided me for the talk was a short little quiz. I was impressed with this short 12 question survey, and thought you would like to see […]
If you are caregiver you may be struggling with exhaustion, frustration, and depression. You may be feeling that you have little support from friends and family and feeling that people do not understand the difficulty of what you do. Let’s face it; most people wouldn’t unless they walked in your shoes for a week.
When research shows over and over again that long-term stress increases a person’s risk for health attacks, stroke and possibly cancer, we are alarmed.
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If you are in a larger community, find an adult day care center and send your mother at least once a week.
get a free guided imagery, stress busting recording from http://www.caregiverrelief.com. Download this 15 minute recording and listen to it everyday. Your stress levels will melt away. Go to the website’s CD page and pick “English Garden” to purchase. Then go to the shopping cart to check out. Once there, you will see a box for […]
