| Dementia Care: Putting a Shadowbox Together - Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:21:51 -0500 |
| Assembling a shadowbox to use for your family member with dementia can be easy to do as you have most items you need right around your home. A shadowbox is a container in which items of interest to a particular person or group are displayed safely. How to put one together is a question often asked by home caregivers as well as paid caregivers who work in a facility. |
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| Alzheimer's Research News - Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:21:57 -0500 |
| There is constant research going on both ways to prevent Alzheimer's disease or dementia and methods to test for it. Updates on research on blood tests and genes were sent to me that I thought I'd pass along. |
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| Dementia: Stop Fighting, Start Accepting - Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:27:48 -0500 |
| The article was called, "Giving Alzheimer's Patients Their Way, Even Chocolate". Discussing some basic stress reducing techniques used by a skilled nursing facility in Arizona, the article focuses on how we as caregivers, whether at home or working in a facility, have the ability to let go of how we think things should be. Instead of automatically deciding what should happen in a particular encounter with a person with dementia, we need to tune into the moods of the person and go with it. As the author mentions, if someone wants an experience that gives them joy, we should give it. They use the example of a client wanting to bathe at 2 am and they encouraged it. Sounds so simple but then why is that so hard to do? |
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