Below are the best articles we could find on Dementia and handling a loved ones illness.
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When my mom developed dementia, my dad tried to deny it and I tried to fix it. We both failed.
Legal and medical experts encourage people recently diagnosed with a serious illness—particularly one that is expected to cause declining mental and physical health—to examine and update their financial and health care arrangements as soon as possible.
Dementia affects the person diagnosed but also raises fears for siblings and children. Here are the facts.
It can be helpful to arm yourself with understanding about why this happens and have a couple of responses prepared to try to help your loved one.
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.
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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My mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decline were a painful and lonely journey, one that coincided with an otherwise unbearably hectic time. My two children were still in diapers.
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