Ebook: The 36-hour day: a family guide to caring for people who have alzheimer disease, related dementias, and memory loss in later life

Contents note continued: Suspiciousness -- Hiding Things -- Delusions and Hallucinations -- Having Nothing to Do -- 9. Special Arrangements If You Become Ill -- In the Event of Your Death -- 10. Getting Outside Help -- Help from Friends and Neighbors -- Finding Information and Services -- Kinds of Services -- Having Someone Come into Your Home -- Adult Day Care -- Short-Stay Residential Care -- Planning in Advance for Home Care or Day Care -- When the Person with Dementia Rejects the Care -- Your Own Feelings about Getting Respite for Yourself -- Locating Resources -- Paying for Care -- Should Respite Programs Mix People Who Have Different Problems? -- Determining the Quality of Services -- Research and Demonstration Programs -- 11. You and the Person Who Has Dementia as Parts of a Family -- Changes in Roles -- Understanding Family Conflicts -- Division of Responsibility -- Your Marriage -- Coping with Role Changes and Family Conflict -- A Family Conference.;Contents note continued: When You Live out of Town -- When You Are Not the Primary Caregiver, What Can You Do to Help? -- Caregiving and Your Job -- Your Children -- Teenagers -- 12. How Caring for a Person Who Has Dementia Affects You -- Emotional Reactions -- Anger -- Embarrassment -- Helplessness -- Guilt -- Laughter, Love, and Joy -- Grief -- Depression -- Isolation and Feeling Alone -- Worry -- Being Hopeful and Being Realistic -- Mistreating the Person with Dementia -- Physical Reactions -- Fatigue -- Illness -- Sexuality -- If Your Spouse Has Dementia -- If Your Impaired Parent Lives with You -- The Future -- You as a Spouse Alone -- When the Person You Have Cared for Dies -- 13. Caring for Yourself -- Take Time Out -- Give Yourself a Present -- Friends -- Avoid Isolation -- Find Additional Help If You Need It -- Recognize the Warning Signs -- Counseling -- Joining with Other Families: The Alzheimer's Association -- Support Groups -- Excuses -- Advocacy.;Contents note continued: Sleep Disturbances and Night Wandering -- Worsening in the Evening ("Sundowning") -- Losing, Hoarding, or Hiding Things -- Rummaging in Drawers and Closets -- Inappropriate Sexual Behavior -- Repeating the Question -- Repetitious Actions -- Distractibility -- Clinging or Persistently Following You Around ("Shadowing") -- Complaints and Insults -- Taking Things -- Forgetting Telephone Calls -- Demands -- Stubbornness and Uncooperativeness -- When the Person with Dementia Insults the Sitter -- Using Medication to Manage Behavior -- 8. Symptoms That Appear as Changes in Mood -- Depression -- Complaints about Health -- Suicide -- Alcohol or Drug Abuse -- Apathy and Listlessness -- Remembering Feelings -- Anger and Irritability -- Anxiety, Nervousness, and Restlessness -- False Ideas, Suspiciousness, Paranoia, and Hallucinations -- Misinterpretation -- Failure to Recognize People or Things (Agnosia) -- "You Are Not My Husband" -- "My Mother Is Coming for Me.";Contents note continued: Urinary Incontinence -- Bowel Incontinence -- Cleaning Up -- Problems with Walking and Balance; Falling -- Becoming Chairbound or Bedfast -- Wheelchairs -- Changes You Can Make at Home -- Should Environments Be Cluttered or Bare? -- 6. Medical Problems -- Pain -- Falls and Injuries -- Pressure Sores -- Dehydration -- Pneumonia -- Constipation -- Medications -- Dental Problems -- Vision Problems -- Hearing Problems -- Dizziness -- Visiting the Doctor -- If the Ill Person Must Enter the Hospital -- Seizures, Fits, or Convulsions -- Jerking Movements (Myoclonus) -- The Death of the Person with Dementia -- The Cause of Death -- Dying at Home -- Hospice -- Dying in the Hospital or Nursing Home -- When Should Treatment End? -- What Kind of Care Can Be Given at the End of Life? -- 7. Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia -- The Six R's of Behavior Management -- Concealing Memory Loss -- Wandering -- Reasons That People Wander -- The Management of Wandering.;Contents note continued: Medications and Vitamins -- Limiting Exposure to Toxic Chemicals -- Aluminum -- Head Injury -- 18. Brain Disorders and the Causes of Dementia -- Mild Cognitive Impairment -- Dementia -- Alcohol Abuse Associated Dementia -- Alzheimer Disease -- Cortical Basal Ganglionic Degeneration -- Depression -- The Frontotemporal Dementias -- HIV-AIDS -- Lewy Body Dementia -- Primary Progressive Aphasia -- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy -- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI or Head Trauma) -- Vascular Dementia -- Young or Early Onset Dementia -- Other Brain Disorders -- Delirium -- Korsakoff Syndrome -- Stroke and Other Localized Brain Injury -- Transient Ischemic Attack -- 19. Research in Dementia -- Understanding Research -- Bogus Cures -- Research in Vascular Dementia and Stroke -- Research in Alzheimer Disease -- Structural Changes in the Brain -- Brain Cells -- Neuroplasticity -- Neurotransmitters -- Abnormal Proteins -- Protein Abnormalities within Brain Cells.;Machine generated contents note: 1. Dementia -- What Is Dementia? -- The Person Who Has Dementia -- Where Do You Go from Here? -- 2. Getting Medical Help for the Person Who Has Dementia -- The Evaluation of the Person with a Suspected Dementia -- Finding Someone to Do an Evaluation -- The Medical Treatment and Management of Dementia -- The Physician -- The Nurse -- The Social Worker -- The Geriatric Care Manager -- The Pharmacist -- 3. Characteristic Behavioral Symptoms in People Who Have Dementia -- The Brain, Behavior, and Personality: Why People Who Have Dementia Do the Things They Do -- Caregiving: Some General Suggestions -- Memory Problems -- Overreacting, or Catastrophic Reactions -- Combativeness -- Problems with Speech and Communication -- Problems the Person with Dementia Has in Making Himself Understood -- Problems the Person with Dementia Has in Understanding Others -- Loss of Coordination -- Loss of Sense of Time.;Contents note continued: Symptoms That Are Better Sometimes and Worse at Other Times -- 4. Problems in Independent Living -- Mild Cognitive Impairment -- Managing the Early Stages of Dementia -- When a Person Must Give Up a Job -- When a Person Can No Longer Manage Money -- When a Person Can No Longer Drive Safely -- When a Person Can No Longer Live Alone -- When You Suspect That Someone Living Alone Is Developing Dementia -- What You Can Do -- Moving to a New Residence -- 5. Problems Arising in Daily Care -- Hazards to Watch For -- In the House -- Outdoors -- In the Car -- Highways and Parking Lots -- Smoking -- Hunting -- Nutrition and Mealtimes -- Meal Preparation -- Mealtimes -- Problem Eating Behaviors -- Malnutrition -- Weight Loss -- Choking -- When to Consider Tube Feeding -- Exercise -- Recreation -- Meaningful Activity -- Personal Hygiene -- Bathing -- Locating Care Supplies -- Dressing -- Grooming -- Oral Hygiene -- Incontinence (Wetting or Soiling).;Contents note continued: 14. For Children and Teenagers -- 15. Financial and Legal Issues -- Your Financial Assessment -- Potential Expenses -- Potential Resources -- Where to Look for the Forgetful Person's Resources -- Legal Matters -- 16. Nursing Homes and Other Living Arrangements -- Types of Living Arrangements -- Moving with the Person Who Has Dementia -- Finding a Nursing Home or Other Residential Care Setting -- Paying for Care -- Guidelines for Selecting a Nursing Home or Other Residential Care Facility -- Moving to a Nursing Home or Other Residential Care Facility -- Adjusting to a New Life -- Visiting -- Your Own Adjustment -- When Problems Occur in the Nursing Home or Other Residential Care Facility -- Sexual Issues in Nursing Homes or Other Care Facilities -- 17. Preventing or Delaying Cognitive Decline -- Normal Changes -- General Mental and Physical Health -- Lifestyle Factors -- Physical Exercise -- Diet -- Potential Treatments and Cures -- Mental Exercise.;Contents note continued: Nerve Growth Factors -- Transplants of Brain Tissue -- Drug Studies -- Metals -- Prions -- Immunological Defects -- Head Trauma -- Epidemiology -- Down Syndrome -- Old Age -- Heredity -- Gender -- Neuropsychological Testing -- Brain Imaging -- Keeping Active -- The Effect of Acute Illness on Dementia -- Research into the Delivery of Services -- Protective Factors.