Alzheimer Disease: First Steps for Families
When someone has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer Disease, the news may be upsetting for both the individual and those who care about her. Most likely you have been worried about the changes you have been seeing in the person and you may also be anxious about the future.
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Top Ten Tips for Selecting a Residence For Your Aging Relative
Selecting a residence for your aging relative can present challenges. The variety of residences available (from long-term care to retirement to Alzheimer-specific residences) can cause confusion. In addition, many people have entrenched ideas about what a residence is and looks like - and given that residences have changed drastically in the past several years, those ideas can be wrong!
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Top Ten Signs That Your Senior Relative May Need Housing Assistance
Determining whether or not a senior relative may require a change in living arrangements can be difficult. To provide a starting point, The Care Guide has issued its Top Ten Signs indicating that a senior may require housing assistance.
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Living Arrangements for Persons with Alzheimer Disease
Many people in the early stages of Alzheimer Disease live safely at home, even though they may need plenty of memory cues like lists and notes. Over time, though, Alzheimer Disease causes memory loss and thinking problems that could make living at home problematic. For example, Alzheimer patients who are in the mid- to late-stages of the disease have been known to leave appliances such as the stove or the coffee pot on, and wander to unsafe places such as a busy intersection or unfamiliar part of town.
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