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04/25/09
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Category: Alzheimer's

can someone please tell me how to handle the bathing?

my mom is in the middle stage. she will be 80 in a couple of more months. she is on arcipet,& namenda. she has lorazepam as needed for agitiation. i only use the lorazepam when it is absolutely necessary. most days she will let me or the staff give her a sink bath. then there is those days when…

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