Public meltdowns are notoriously difficult to handle, and it is impossible to predict when a dementia patient might begin acting out. You don’t want to offend or disturb people around you, but you can’t rationalize with your loved one or just keep them locked up at home. What...
Mrs. J, age 75, has moderate Alzheimer's dementia and lives at home with her husband. Since her...Carnahan, Ryan M.Dowden Health Media, Inc.Current Psychiatry
With dementia, it is important to remember that the patient doesn’t have full control over their words or actions. As a caregiver, the best thing you can do is not take it personally. Focus on the positive, ignore the negative and take a break from caregiving as often as you can by ...
Caring for a patient with dementia directly links to significant psychological stress. It also affects the caregivers' physical and mental health. The psychiatric morbidity is higher among the caregivers population. Depression, anxiety disorder and insomnia have been found to be the most common. In ...
As a caregiver for someone with dementia, communicate with them in a positive, patient, and respectful way, keep things organized, make sure food is within their reach at all times, and spend time talking to them, even if just for 10 minutes a day. Take
They’re all here and ready to answer your questions online or by phone. Keep asking questions until you get the answer you need. ASK A DOCTOR NOW The most important thing for a patient with epilepsy is the love, the concern of family, and the sympathy of friends and the people around...
Aphasia is caused by damage to the language-dominant side of the brain, usually the left side, and may be brought on by: Stroke. Head injury. Brain tumor. Infection. Dementia. Does aphasia affect memory? FALSE– Although a person with aphasia can have difficulty retrieving words and names,...
Sometimes it's inadvertent: A patient who is impaired due to dementia or medication may say or do something sexually inappropriate. Sometimes it's intentional: A patient may badger a doctor for a date; grope a nurse; or become aggressive, insistent, and disturbing. ...
Around 55 million people worldwide suffer from dementia such as Alzheimer's disease. Recently, the actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a rare type of dementia that typically affects people ages 45 to 64. In contrast to
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