Dementia caregivers cope with repetitive questions, mood swings, lost personal space, and live with exhaustion, frustration, and anger. You may not know how to prepare.
Dementia Home Care
covers:
Life hacks like camouflaging doors to prevent wandering, or “mom” bags for life’s little emergencies and what to stock in it for road trips
Distraction Techniques—Nursery Rhymes, warm blankets, food
Hoarding—Thinning “collections” during sleep periods, removing trash completely from premises, canceling subscriptions, blocking shopping channels
Information needed by emergency medical personnel—what is needed on a medication list, and list of physical ailments
Working with your Pharmacist—drug interaction checks
Memory Aids—memory boards, memory books, flash cards
Powers of Attorney—Power of Attorney Health Care, Durable Power of Attorney
Death—Contacting the Credit Bureaus to add a Death Watch when a family member dies, reporting a death to Social Security, obtaining death certificates
Distinguishing the difference between a hallucination and delusion
Address the empty nester experience after the loss of a loved one—to a nursing facility or to death
These are a few of the skills and tips covered in
. While these tools will not stop dementia, they may ease your pain—and these skills can be taught to anyone. Whether you read from cover to cover or are a page-fanner,
will help you maintain your humor and your emotional connection with your loved one longer.
The purpose of
is to help you look back with pride and joy.