Noticing Changes in a Parent? A Family Guide to Memory Care at Home
Noticing memory changes in a parent? Learn the early signs to watch for and how memory care at home can help your family feel supported and prepared.
What Dementia Care at Home Actually Teaches You: The Shift New Caregivers Don’t Expect
Thinking about a caregiving career? Discover the real lesson dementia care at home teaches — and why it's more meaningful than most people expect.
Effective Communication Techniques and Tips for Helping Clients With Dementia
Gain insights into methods and tips to improve connection, understanding, and care in dementia support.
Compassionately Helping Those With Dementia as a Professional Caregiver
As a professional caregiver, your role in providing compassionate care and support to those with dementia is invaluable. See how to do it!
How to Respond to Behavior Changes of Loved Ones with Dementia
How can you best respond to behavior changes and better manage a loved one with dementia whose thinking is also changing? Here are nine tips that will help.
Can You Detect Signs of Dementia Years Before It Occurs?
What if you could detect dementia up to 9 years in advance? See what researchers say may be possible and why it's important!
Lessons Learned From a Decade of Caregiving
A husband vowed to care for his wife at home after her diagnosis of Lewy body and Alzheimer’s disease. Their daughters worried about them both.
Caregiving Tips for Seniors with Alzheimer’s Disease
When your loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or when you start observing the symptoms associated with it, it can be very challenging on many levels, emotionally, physically and also from the standpoint of understanding the details correctly.
Telemedicine for Alzheimer’s: How Can Professionals Use This To Help?
Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia can be challenging to cope with, especially if it’s happening to a loved one. If you’re caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia, consider asking your health professional and care provider if they have telemedicine services available.
Managing Stress for Alzheimer’s Patients
Even seemingly minor changes in routine can cause Alzheimer’s patients undue stress and frustration. A Dementia Care Specialist who knows how to properly diffuse a situation that might otherwise blow up into something much worse, however, can quickly help restore peace and order. Betty’s [Read More...]
