Below are the best articles we could find on Caregiver Well-Being and dementia.
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Recognizing and Preventing Caregiver Overload
The essential role that daughters play in the American health care system is well known but has received little attention.
Caregiving for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease can be an isolating journey that’s both physically and emotionally taxing.
Caring for a loved one with dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, can be a difficult task. Often this task falls to a family member, and as the disease progresses, the care needs become greater, requiring more hours of the caregiver’s time.
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When a caregiver doesn’t take the time for self-care, the result is compassion fatigue and burnout.
Caregivers often find themselves exhausted at the end of the day, but many are still not able to sleep.
Many family caregivers choose to support a relative with dementia at home. But as their disease progresses, caring for someone with dementia alone may become difficult to manage. If a time comes when you need help caring for your elderly loved one, help is available.
Most people with Alzheimer’s disease eventually need a level of care that their partner or family members alone can’t provide. Then it’s time to either bring helpers into your home or move your loved one to a long-term care facility.
Early on in Alzheimer’s and related dementias, people experience changes in thinking, remembering, and reasoning in a way that affects daily life and activities. Eventually, people with these diseases will need more help with simple, everyday tasks.
Anger, confusion, and sadness are a few symptoms a person with dementia may experience regularly. Even though you know your loved one’s dementia behaviors are symptoms of a disease and not intentional, dealing with them is often emotionally and physically challenging.
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