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Dementia & caregiver well being

Below are the best resources we could find on Dementia and caregiver well being.

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Dementia Care Guide: Memory Loss Care Solutions

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.

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Angelike Gaunt
2021
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When Your Parent Has Memory Loss | Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support

In today’s expert interview, we speak with Jennifer Fink from the Fading Memories—Alzheimers Caregiver Support podcast.

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2019
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The Caregiver’s Guide to Dementia: Practical Advice for Caring for Yourself and Your Loved One

When caring for someone with dementia, your own mental stability can be the single most critical factor in your loved one’s quality of life. The Caregiver’s Guide to Dementia brings practical and comprehensive guidance to understanding the illness, caring for someone, and caring for yourself.

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Gail Weatherill
2020
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FMLA and Caring for Elderly Parent with Dementia

An employee who is eligible for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave has asked to use it to spend time with her father, who is in a nursing home but having difficulty settling in. He has dementia and will listen only to family members. Is this a qualifying event?

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Reggie Gay
2019
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Caregivers Ask: How Can I Manage When My Elderly Parent with Dementia Is Taking Advantage of Me?

In this video, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson discussed the inability of elderly parents with dementia to recognize the effect of their behaviors on others. Elderly parents with dementia are vulnerable and helpless.

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2021
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The Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver’s Handbook: What to Remember When They Forget

When a loved one shows signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, you will face challenges for which you feel ill-prepared.

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Dr. Sally Willard Burbank, Sue Pace Bell
2018
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Dementia Behaviors: Expert Tips for Understanding and Coping

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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Merritt Whitley
2020
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Learning Not to Argue—Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease

Caregiver tips for learning to accept a different reality, for being patient and kind.

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2012
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Did I Remember to Tell You?: A Real-life Guidebook for Dementia Family Caregivers

While there is an abundance of information about dementia for family caregivers to learn symptoms, skills, do’s and don’ts, there is little to help them comprehend why it is so important to do everything differently than before this disease.

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Pam Kovacs Johnson
2020
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Dementia Care: Helping Your Loved One Stay Connected and Safe

Tips for meeting the unique challenges of caring for someone with dementia or Alzheimer's

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AARP staff
2021
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