Category About Dementia

People with dementia experience many changes, including memory loss, impaired judgment, and various behavioral changes. At some point, your care receiver will lose the ability to housekeep and, after time, the living environment will become very cluttered.  The person may…

Many people with dementia can help fix some of their own meals or participate in a limited way with your help. They may no longer be able to cook a full meal or even one dish, but most individuals can…

Persons with dementia fall up to three times more often than individuals without cognitive impairments. Dementia not only causes individuals to experience normal age-related vision and mobility changes that increase fall risk, but it brings it own set of challenges…

It can be difficult at times being a caregiver to a person with dementia. Without help from those who’ve been there, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. As the disease progresses, the person loses skills and abilities that were once natural,…

Activities are one of the most powerful things you can do with a person with dementia to increase their well being and help them to calm down and reduce agitation. We all like to be engaged and productive and persons…