Why Do Cognitive Screenings Make Alzheimer’s Patients so Agitated?
As a family caregiver, one experience that can be stressful is a cognitive screening. It's a common occurrence when your parent has Alzheimer's. It's also one thing many Alzheimer's patients absolutely despise. On these appointment days, stress...
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How Can You Work Together with Other Family Members in Caregiving?
When you and other family members are able to come together as a team, this gives you a different caregiving situation than a lot of family caregivers face. You may still have some gaps in what you’re all able to do together, and this is where...
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Four Tips for Feeding a Picky Eater
It’s frustrating to watch your senior family member refuse to eat, meal after meal. Instead of getting into a fight with her about it, you might find that some of these tips help you to come to a compromise with her. [caption id="attachment_1447"...
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What Kinds of Notes Should You Keep about Your Senior’s Dementia?
Keeping a log book or journal about your senior’s dementia can help you to meet her needs more readily. It’s much easier to keep track of symptoms that she’s had for a while as well as new ones as soon as they show up. Your dementia log...
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What Qualifies as Self-care?
Self-care is one of the more important things you can take care of as a caregiver. You have to make sure that you’re doing what you need to do for yourself so that you can do anything at all for the other people in your life. [caption...
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What Can Your Senior Eat if She Needs to Stick with...
If your elderly family member is in need of soft food ideas, you both might have gotten a little bit frustrated trying to think of different ideas that are also interesting. These options might help a bit. [caption id="attachment_1435"...
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