If you have an elderly parent living at home with Alzheimer’s Disease or another form of dementia, then you know how challenging it is to keep them safe. You may also know that moving an elder with dementia to a nursing home can increase confusion and escalate cognitive decline.
People with Alzheimer’s Disease fare better in [...]
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Caring For Your Elderly Parent With Dementia At Home
Helping Your Elderly Parent With Dementia
If your parent is showing signs and symptoms of memory loss or a decline in the ability to problem solve, you should have them evaluated by an expert in dementia as early treatment can preserve function and independence. It is also important to get an early diagnosis to determine the type of dementia as the [...]
Are You Worried That Your Parent May Have Alzheimer’s Disease?
If you’re worried that your parent may have signs of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), you should have them evaluated by their physician sooner than later. If you notice your parent has difficulty with word or name finding, decreased ability to remember names of newly introduced people, decrease in an ability to perform as usual in social [...]
Does Your Elderly Parent Need an Assisted Living Facility or Nursing Home?
If your parent is no longer safe in their own home and they need more help then you and other family members can provide, where do you start looking for alternatives?
If your parent is fairly independent but needs some assistance with bathing, dressing, or toileting and with meals, then an assisted living may be the [...]
Prevent Your Elderly Parent from Falling – Proper Lighting
2009 Here’s more on the subject of minimizing the risk of your parent falling at home.
Proper lighting in the home could save an elder from tripping or slipping. You see, as we age we need more light to see. In fact an older person needs 4x more light than a younger person and elders over [...]
Why You Should Prevent Your Elderly Parent From Falling
2009 Odds are if you can keep your parents on their feet, you have a better chance of saving them from a “death sentence” in a nursing home. Falls are the number one reason an elder is moved out of their home and into a nursing home.
Falls are among the most serious problems of the [...]
Finding Help for Mom or Dad
Are you finding it difficult to manage the responsibilities of taking care of your children, your spouse (all while perhaps working a full-time job), and trying to help out your parents? Are you worried about what will happen as your parents require more of your time?
If you promised to to keep your mom or dad [...]
Preventing Elders’ Falls – Part 1
Successful aging is often measured by the ability to walk and remain independent. There are two main ways that elderly people lose their mobility and independence. One is from serious illness and often little can be done to alter the course of decline. The other way elders lose mobility and independence (and the fastest way) [...]
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