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الخميس، 14 فبراير 2019

Discovering Companionship Care For Seniors With Dementia

By Jerry Lee


When it comes to caring for seniors and the elderly, needs can often vary. For example, disabled seniors and elderly in good health may only need an in home care provider for a day while others may need live in companionship care for seniors with dementia. In either case, it is important to do a background check on the company providing the help as well as the assigned home health aide or caregiver. In most cases, these individuals have gone through some aspect of training either through a state program or a senior center. While this is the case, there have also been a number of incidents involving elderly abuse, theft and other issues.

The FCA and the National Center on Caregiving are organizations which can provide caregivers with a variety of resources. In most cases, the resources provided are aimed specifically at family members caring for a loved one at home. Whereas, the alliance provides a platform for ongoing discussion while providing services, educational programs and advocating for new and existing caregivers.

All services, programs and resources offered are developed and designed with caregivers in mind. In addition, a number of educational services and programs provide tailored material and tools to make learning easy. After which, caregivers often find it easier to meet the demands and challenges which the position can often entail.

Caregivers also have access to the National Center On Caregiving which works to promote cost-effective, high quality policies and programs, and a Bay Area Caregiver Resource Center for those living in the six counties in or around the San Francisco Bay Area which provides consultants whom work closely with family members caring for ill or elderly loved ones.

The FCA also offers resources and support such as a section on the website in which caregivers can share stories or ask questions about a specific situation. In addition, the site has a monthly calendar of events for caregivers in which some events are also open to clients. In most cases, the events are entertaining while also providing information important to caregivers and clients.

It can often be beneficial to know the seven stages of dementia when providing care to seniors or the elderly. For, by understanding these stages, caregivers can better understand the needs of clients whom often can not express such information first hand. The beginning, or stage one of the disease has no obvious signs and is the starting point for all those effected by Alzheimer's or dementia.

In stages two through seven, memory begins to decline slowly while other signs of Alzheimer's can often begin to appear somewhere between the second and third stage. The most dramatic changes begin to occur in stage 3, these include poor work performance, verbal repetition, poor concentration, difficulty solving problems, organizing and losing the ability to complete complex tasks. While, difficulty driving will often occur somewhere between the third and fourth stage.

When it comes to stages 4 through 7, individuals will often become isolated, avoid social contact, have increased trouble with memory and problem solving abilities and begin to lose control of cognitive behavior. While in the later stages, forgetting faces, names, numbers and other information are signs that the individual has entered the most advanced phases of the disease.




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