Cope with changes in communication
by Admin
Posted on 12-04-2024 12:47 PM
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Learn about your loved one’s condition.
This can improve communication with your loved one, and it can help you cope with their changing behavior. Attend medical appointments and ask questions.
The following strategies may help you cope with caring for someone with ad:
set realistic and attainable goals. Often, caregivers try to make everything all right and strive for unrealistic goals and end up exhausted and frustrated. Perhaps your goal is to be sure that your patient is clean, comfortable and well fed. But accepting success at 80 percent, for example, will allow you to enjoy time you might have otherwise spent fretting about not reaching your goals.
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Although difficult, try to be comfortable with a less than perfectly groomed spouse or perfectly organized home. Anticipate misinterpretation by your patient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease
Promoting healthy aging and reducing the risk of dementia is a national priority. Goal 6 of the national plan to address alzheimer’s disease promotes health behaviors such as increasing physical activity, eating a healthy diet, and quitting cigarette smoking and excessive drinking. 3a cdc study of eight risk factors for alzheimer’s disease (high blood pressure, physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes, depression, smoking, hearing loss, and binge drinking) among adults 45 and older found the following4: nearly half of adults had high blood pressure or did not meet the aerobic physical activity guideline. Adults with subjective cognitive decline—worsening confusion or memory loss in the previous year—were more likely to report at least four risk factors (34.