Caring For A Parent With Alzheimer
The author describes her feelings and the situations in caregiving for a parent with Alzheimer’s Disease.
The author describes her feelings and the situations in caregiving for a parent with Alzheimer’s Disease.
One is entitled to be as pain-free as possible. Techniques and suggestions on how to keep your pain at a reasonable level. Examples are medications, biofeedback, meditation, and acupuncture.
New personal emergency response system is becoming part of daily life of many home-bound elderly people. Learn about the benefits of PERS and other services that may assist your loved one. List of numbers an elderly can call in cases of emergency.
Wandering is indeed a problem for Alzheimers patients and caregivers. Your loved one may experience disorientation and lose the ability to recognize familiar places and faces.
It is ok to grieve for as long as one desires – there is no normal way to grief. However, moving on with your life is important for your well-being.
List of things one can do to improve long-distance caregiving. Also, hints on what to do when one is visiting the elderly.
People in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease are healthy, high functioning and able to express feelings, concerns and experiences. They may have mild memory loss and some confusion.
Taking care of your parent who is living with you can be the most rewarding experience. However, you need to consider many factors before moving the parent in with you. Article lists suggestions on where to start.
Discussion of self-transformation during caring for the loved one and after the loved one is lost. Open your heart and enter a peaceable place ready to face your suffering and accept love.
Caregivers may have been trained how to give an injection, but they have no one to help them deal with the strain of the illness itself. Most people don’t have a clue they’re burned out until they’re in crisis.
Caring for an aging or ill parent is something that none of use expects to do. Parents are at the mercy of their caregivers while adult children are scared and ill at ease in dealing with a long term illness.
Caregivers are on a path seemingly without end, subject to the stresses and guilts of watching a loved ones pain without being able to erase it. They find themselves on a chaotic journey where the only certainty is the demise of a loved one.