Why We Wrote the Book
We wrote this book to help you. This book combines personal stories with practical techniques drawn from decades of caregiving experience from family caregivers, professional CAREGivers℠ within the Home Instead Senior Care® network, and internationally recognized experts.
In this video series, certified senior advisor Mary Alexander from Home Instead Senior Care talks about the stress of being a caregiver and ways to cope. This series of videos is designed for anyone who is caring for an elderly person — be it a parent, other relative or friend.
The videos will introduce you to the extent of caregiver stress and signs that stress might be affecting you, as well as tips for dealing with special caregiving considerations and tools and techniques to lessen stress and take care of yourself.
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Helping Families Cope
A guide for those caring for a loved one with
Alzheimer’s Disease or Other Dementias
Question: How to change the dynamics in your home? My mom has dementia/Alzheimer’s but still can plot and fuss when it’s not what she wants. She still has the upper hand in all things. She is used to having her way and will make me regret not doing what she wants. My mom has been sick all my life, so I have always been a caregiver. But I have a family too, and it’s hard to always do things her way. I am 56 and would like to be able to get out now and then. I am still the child in this relationship.
Raleigh News and Observer Alzheimer’s Article
Elaine Vlieger is making some concessions to Alzheimer’s. She’s cut back on her driving, frozen dinners replace once elaborate cooking, and a son monitors her finances. But the Colorado woman lives alone and isn’t ready to give up her house or her independence.
Some 800,000 people with Alzheimer’s, roughly 1 in 7 Americans with the disease, live alone in their communities, according to surprising new data from the Alzheimer’s Association. It’s a different picture of the mind-destroying disease than the constant caregiving that these people will need eventually.
There’s potentially good news to share with readers in the fight against an incurable disease that affects as many as 5.4 million Americans. A new drug candidate may be the first capable of halting the devastating mental decline of Alzheimer’s disease, based on the findings of
http://www.salk.edu/news/pressrelease_details.php?press_id=532
A Study by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. When given to mice with Alzheimer’s, the drug – known as J147 – improved memory and prevented brain damage caused by the incurable disease. The new compound could be tested for treatment of the disease in humans in the near future, according to researchers.
Because of the broad ability of J147 to protect nerve cells, the researchers believe that it also may be effective for treating other neurological disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease, as well as stroke.
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