How We View Dementia
If we consider Alzheimer's as a form of disability, it focuses on the importance and quality of care they receive....
Dementia Care
- Introduction
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Prevention
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Caregiving
- Coping with Emotional Changes
- Coping with Memory Loss
- Costs and Insurance
- Creating a Daily Routine
- Exercise
- Health and Wellbeing of the Caregiver
- Home Safety Adjustments
- Mental Exercises
- Respite Care
- Talking to Children about Alzheimer's
- Talking to Friends about Alzheimer's
- Telling Someone They Have Alzheimer's
- Transition to Assisted Living
- Transition to Nursing Home
- Work
- Related Conditions
- Resources
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By viewing people with dementia as unique individuals rather than a group of victims of a terrible disease, shifts the way relatives and health care staff interact with them. It recognizes the whole person, their past accomplishments, their social interactions, their psychological needs, and reinstates their humanity. It reduces the, them-and-us culture.
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