Alzheimer’s and dementia tips for caregivers
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Understanding Alzheimer’s: Living With Alzheimer’s Series (An Educational Video to Help Understand Alzheimer’s Disease and Those Affected By It) Part One $55.00 Part One – Living With Alzheimers: Discover the essential facts about Alzheimer’s, the fourth leading cause of death among American adults. Those seeking basic information and a clearer understanding about the disease will learn from experienced caregivers and experts what to expect and the importance of long term planning. If you are caring for a person with Alzheimer’s, you need to have as much … |
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Alzheimer’s Early Stages: First Steps for Family, Friends and Caregivers $9.52 This edition includes the latest information on Alzheimer’s risk factors, treatments, and prevention, as well as a new chapter, “Voices of Experience,” composed of reflections by family members. It also provides information about new drugs approved since 1999 and the federal government’s decision to cover counseling and other health-related services through Medicare…. |
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Frontotemporal Disorders: Information for Patients, Families, and Caregivers $2.99 Few people have heard of frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders that affect personality, behavior, language, and movement. These disorders are little known outside the circles of researchers, doctors, patients, and caregivers who study and live with them. Although frontotemporal disorders remain puzzling in many ways, researchers are finding new clues that will help them solve this medi… |
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The Dementia Caregiver’s Little Book of Hope $9.99 The Dementia Caregiver’s Little Book of Hope is relatively small in size but full of information, advice, and support for family caregivers. It is organized into the following nine chapters: (1) Dementia 101 provides an overview of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and dementia; (2) Medical Information includes advice about medical records, doctor and clinic visits, and placement in a care faci… |
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Care-Giving in Dementia: Research and Applications Volume 3 $120 The first two volumes of Care-Giving in Dementia integrated up-to-date neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments in care-giving. Taking the same multidisciplinary approach, and drawing contributions from leading practitioners, this third volume will prove invaluable to health and mental health professionals caring for people with dementia. Key themes in Volume 3 include: personal construct psychology and person-centred care; living in lifestyle groups in nursing homes; music therapy for people with dementia; support programmes for caregivers of people with dementia; coping in early dementia; stress and burden on care-givers; the Alzheimer Café concept and new support groups for people with dementia; ethical issues in the care of elderly people with dementia in nursing homes. |
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Caregiving – Leisure and Aging $24.95 Create programs that make good use of the leisure time of the elderly, and of those who care for them!Caregiving is a vital issue in today’s rapidly aging society. Each year, a greater number of elderly people find themselves in need of care, and at the same time, more elderly adults than ever are finding themselves in the caregiving role. Caregiving—Leisure and Aging blends the work of six experts in the field, exploring implications for future practice and research, examining caregivers and care receivers and their need for appropriate leisure and recreation activities, and sharing innovative recreation programs to help caregivers and those in their care enrich the quality of their lives.Here you’ll find: a review of literature which examines caregivers’health behaviors and discusses sleep improvement, home-based exercise, and several interventions the common factors found in successful leisure and activities programs for older adults and those who care for them in-depth case studies of three women who cared for their older husbands with dementia and the rationale behind their sacrifice of personal leisure time to provide this care a survey of rural and urban caregivers to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease specific leisure education strategies that have been used successfully in caregiver support groups an examination of the innovative Family-based Structural Multisystem In-home Interventions (FSMII) with a Computer Telephone Integration System (CTIS) projectCaregiving—Leisure and Aging provides information and ideas regarding the importance of leisure both to those elderly people receiving care and also to the aging adults who selflessly deliver that care. |
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Caregiving Leisure & Aging $8.74 Create programs that make good use of the leisure time of the elderly, and of those who care for them!Caregiving is a vital issue in today’s rapidly aging society. Each year, a greater number of elderly people find themselves in need of care, and at the same time, more elderly adults than ever are finding themselves in the caregiving role. Caregiving—Leisure and Aging blends the work of six experts in the field, exploring implications for future practice and research, examining caregivers and care receivers and their need for appropriate leisure and recreation activities, and sharing innovative recreation programs to help caregivers and those in their care enrich the quality of their lives.Here you’ll find: a review of literature which examines caregivers’health behaviors and discusses sleep improvement, home-based exercise, and several interventions the common factors found in successful leisure and activities programs for older adults and those who care for them in-depth case studies of three women who cared for their older husbands with dementia and the rationale behind their sacrifice of personal leisure time to provide this care a survey of rural and urban caregivers to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease specific leisure education strategies that have been used successfully in caregiver support groups an examination of the innovative Family-based Structural Multisystem In-home Interventions (FSMII) with a Computer Telephone Integration System (CTIS) projectCaregiving—Leisure and Aging provides information and ideas regarding the importance of leisure both to those elderly people receiving care and also to the aging adults who selflessly deliver that care. |
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Dementia with Dignity: Enhancing Quality of Life (DVD) $325 The primary goal of this program is to familiarize the viewer with general techniques for effectively working with individuals suffering from dementia. Included are the detrimental effects of isolation and ways to assist patients to maintain as normal a daily life as possible. Also, using information about the patient’s life to assist caregivers in understanding and redirecting unusual or difficult behaviors is discussed. |
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Evidence-Based Protocols for Managing Wandering Behaviors $60 Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award! Designated a Doody’s Core Title!”I have not seen a book that does a better job with synthesis or provision of good concise information to those in need.” (3 Stars)–Doody’s Book Review ServiceWandering behaviors are among the most frequent, problematic, and dangerous conditions associated with dementia and a continual challenge in health care and the community. Strongly research-based, this book presents and analyzes the latest research on wandering from the clinical, health care management, and policy literature and offers practical assessment and management tools. Nurses, physicians, gerontologists and others address the range of wandering behaviors of patients with Alzheimer’s and other dementias, including prevention of elopement, getting lost, falls, fractures, and the subsequent need for extended nursing home or other supervised care that may result. The book places special emphasis on the difficult and stressful problems of daily patient care, improving safety for those with cognitive impairments, and enabling those with dementia to remain independent longer.This book is for all caregivers intent on improving care for the nearly 5 million Americans who are at risk.Key Features of this book:Offers practical tools for measuring and assessing wanderingEmphasizes difficult and stressful daily problems of patient careAssesses medication and nonpharmacological interventionsDescribes the Alzheimer’s Association’s Safe Return ProgramWeighs environmental design factors that influence wandering behaviors |
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Innovative Interventions To Reduce Dementia Caregiver Distress $8.95 Increasing evidence has demonstrated that caregivers of dementia victims are at risk for depression and other medical problems. In what ways can health care providers improve or maintain the well-being of dementia caregivers?This volume provides an overview of emerging themes in dementia caregiving research and presents a broad array of practical strategies for reducing caregiver distress, including interventions for specific populations such as ethnic minority caregivers, male caregivers, and caregivers with diverse sexual orientations. Innovative approaches include the value of partnering with primary care physicians to improve quality of life for both patient and caregiver and the use of technological advances to help distressed caregivers.A timely, cutting edge book written for clinicians of varying backgrounds who provide direct services to families of dementia victims.For Further Information, Please Click Here! |
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Remembering Home: Rediscovering the Self in Dementia $21.05 Research has shown that stimulating early memories can have positive effects for persons with dementia or related disorders and can energize the relationships between such persons and their families, friends, and caregivers. Remembering Home emphasizes the importance of home in the lives of memory-challenged adults, offers insight into the richness and variety of life experiences associated with the idea of home, and suggests ways in which caregivers can encourage reminiscences to improve the quality of life for those with dementia or associated diseases.This volume advances the goals of affirming the dignity of and reinforcing personhood in adults with debilitating memory loss. Environmental gerontologist Habib Chaudhury draws on research and fieldwork—along with the stories and actions of persons with dementia and their loved ones—to discuss dementia and the concept of self. He shows how recollections of home can reach persons with compromised mental capacity, and he shares techniques designed to spark conversation and stimulate participation in group and one-on-one activities. Chaudhury encourages health care professionals and activity leaders to embrace a personhood-affirming mode of care and provides tools and information for nonprofessionals who want to connect with, understand, and better appreciate people with dementia. |
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The impact of functional impairment on the survival of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. $49.99 Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is the fifth leading cause of death among U.S. adults aged 65 or older. Most AD patients have shorter life expectancy compared with older people without dementia. This disease has become an enormous challenge in the aging society and is also a global problem. Not only do families of patients with Alzheimer’s disease need to pay attention to this problem, but also the healthcare system and society as a whole have to confront. In dementia, functional impairment is associated with basic activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). For patients with Alzheimer’s disease, problems typically appear in performing IADL and progress to the inability of managing less complex ADL functions of personal care. Thus, assessment of ADLs can be used for early accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. It should be useful for patients, caregivers, clinicians, and policy planners to estimate the survival of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. However, it is unclear that when making predictions of patient outcome according to their histories, time-dependent covariates will provide us with important information on how changes in a patient’s status can effect the survival. In this study, we examined the effect of impaired basic ADL as measured by the Physical Self-Maintenance Scale (PSMS) and utilized a multistate survival analysis approach to estimate the probability of death in the first few years of initial visit for AD patients taking into consideration the possibility of impaired basic ADL. The dataset used in this study was obtained from the Baylor Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center (ADMDC). No impaired basic ADL and older age at onset of impaired basic ADL were associated with longer survival. These findings suggest that the occurrence of impaired basic ADL and age at impaired basic ADL could be predictors of survival among patients with Alzheimer’s disease. |