In our day to day, we approach every situation with the utmost compassion and care as to what the person being cared for needs. Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia requires a great deal of patience and understanding. At Compassionate Home Care Partners, we are here to help. Alzheimer’s is a difficult condition for family members to deal with. It requires specialized care and strategies to help those who have been afflicted.
What is Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia?
Dementia is an overarching term that described a wide range of symptoms that describe impaired cognitive function in regards to thinking, memory, or decision making. Dementia is not the same as regular age-related degenerations. Misplacing your keys occasionally or being increasingly forgetful, struggling to recall things from memory, etc, are all basic facts of aging cognitively.
However, dementia goes much further than that such as an inability to complete tasks independently or suffering from a precipitous decline in reasoning, judgment, and problem-solving abilities. There are many other symptoms as well.
Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that accounts for approximately 60-80 percent of cases of dementia according to the CDC. The defining symptom of this type of dementia is a failure to recall events that have happened recently, such as a conversation. As the disease progresses, long-term memory and stored memories can be impacted such that recalling them becomes difficult.
What Goes Into Caring for Someone with Alzheimer’s?
At Compassionate Home Care Partner’s, we know that understanding each client’s needs is critical to offering the best care possible. In the case of Alzheimer’s, patience is truly the most important virtue. Because those with Alzheimer’s will forget events even as recent as just a few minutes ago, having the patience to repeat things over and over without growing frustrated is necessary.
A great deal of time caring for a person with Alzheimer’s can be spent going over or answering the same questions. Later stages of Alzheimer’s may make it difficult for clients to do simple tasks they used to do independently, such as dressing themselves, grooming themselves, preparing their own meals, etc.
Safety is also a major concern for clients that are suffering from Alzheimer’s. One of the reasons that make this disease so difficult for family members to tackle alone without professional help is the sheer time required to take care of a person with Alzheimer’s.
Memory loss, as we have mentioned, extends to recent events as well as forgetting how to do things the person once knew how. This opens up many dangers for the client when navigating through their home or doing other seemingly ordinary activities.
Alzheimer’s Care Lakeland FL
A patient and compassionate home care professional that is well versed in caring for others is crucial for helping a client with dementia, or specifically Alzheimer’s.
We understand that loving compassion, patience, and a commitment to communication is what it takes to effectively care for anyone, but especially those who are suffering from Alzheimer’s.
Contact us today for more information on our home care services.
