Reality for someone without Alzheimer's disease is here and now-what affects our lives in the present. For one with Alzheimer's disease (AD), it can be anchored in the past or even in the distant past, because they are the only memories as the person can download. As mentioned in Dr. Daniel c. Potts and Ellen Woodward Potts book A Pocket Guide for Alzheimer's Caregiver, "people with AD is losing his ability to remember the first time, and then past in General." When an individual asks a question repeatedly, it is because they don't remember the answer you just gave them. "Arguing and patch" is one of the early chapters of part two of the book, which gives practical advice on how to deal with some of the many personality changes as a beloved will go through with the AD.
This book is an excellent resource for those who provide caregiving to one with Alzheimer's and even would be a good source of information for someone who gives only occasional direct caregiving, understand what both patient and caregiver. There may indeed be a challenging situation when an AD wander from home and don't have a GPS bracelet or experiences "sundowning," in which he or she becomes confused and agitated at the end of each day.
Part one of A Pocket Guide for Alzheimer's Caregiver describes how Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed and stages of the disease, corrects caregiving and offers general tips with message for an AD. The short chapters to identify certain common problems in a caregiver will face, including:
• The will of the individual to "go home" and caregiver can help him or her to find that location.
• False accusations that the caregiver
• Hallucinations, changes in perceptions and concerns
• Inappropriate public behaviour
• Apparel, dressing and bathroom anxiety
• How to remove driving privileges if necessary
• Eat, sleep, sundowning, wandering and violence on an AD on behalf of
• Walking and balance and customize live spaces so that the patient
• Dealing with severe weather, depression and tell the individual about his diagnosis
• Realistic expectations, social isolation, is about family and art therapies
See quick guide in part two of the Guide gives the reader a "how to" list for each problem with bullets. Some useful resources for healthcare providers to turn to for more information on the back of the book. In all the circumstances described, encourage authors caregiver to put himself in the AD hit point of reference and to address them courteously and with love and respect.
A Pocket Guide for Alzheimer's Caregiver are written with a very loving way, from Dr. Potts perspective, a neurologist and his wife Ellen Potts, specialist health and management between them had eight family members diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The personal stories add a useful dimension to the book, the authors have "been there, done that." Order the book, go http://alzpocketguide.com/to. Alzheimer's disease affects 5.3 million Americans and is the "defining the disease of the baby boomer generation" according to the Alzheimer's Association. For a free weekly newsletter which treat Alzheimer 's, dementia, caregiving and aging itself, http://www.issueswithalzheimers.com/ go to to register.