My Mom is Being Mean to Me

So there I was. I had dropped out of the world to care for my mother, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Could she have said anything meaner, "I don't need you, get out."

It hurt.

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How I Stopped My Mother from Being Mean to Me

I couldn't possibly list all of the mean and nutty behaviors my mother, Dotty, engaged in in those first few years of our life together with Alzheimer's. The list is just to long.

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Alzheimer's World and Communication

Why is it so hard to understand that a person living with Alzheimer's forgets? A person living with dementia is deeply forgetful.

Communicating in Alzheimer's World

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What Was the First Sign of Dementia in Your Case?

Was memory loss the first sign of dementia or did something else tip you off that something was wrong?

Dementia & Alzheimer's

What is the difference between Alzheimer's and dementia is a frequently asked question.

There is confusion about the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

The confusion is felt on the part of patients, family members, the media, and even healthcare providers.

New Online Early Dementia Screening Test

These are the best free memory tests for Alzheimer's and dementia backed by reputable science. Alzheimers dementia tests online.

Side Effects of Dementia Drugs

Does your loved one living with dementia mention dizziness?

Most of us would probably conclude that fainting is caused by Alzheimer's, and not a problem brought on by the side effects of a medication(s). The study below highlights the potential side effects of cholinesterase inhibitors.

The scientists are not suggesting that dementia patients stop taking cholinesterase inhibitors.

However, if you are experiencing these problems you might want to discuss these issues with your personal care physician or a specialist.

Dementia Care, Good Cop, Bad Cop

If you are a bad Dementia cop, you are probably upset all the time by the behavior of your Alzheimer's patient. If you are a good Dementia cop, you probably learned that your Alzheimer's patient is not guilty of a crime.

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It is pretty easy to blame Alzheimer's patients for everything they do. It is not unusual for caregivers to tell me that their loved one is mean or a real challenge to manage. Most often when I ask, have you given any serious thought to why they are mean or hard to deal with they answer no.

"Music Therapy" and Dementia

"As a family, we didn't know what to do when our father was diagnosed with this Alzheimer's disease. We have been through so many stages and now he seems to just be deteriorating to nothing. However, the music seems to have brought back some of his brain to him!"

By Nicholas Simmons-Stern

Dementia Quote of the Day - The Abandoned

Like it or not, if you are a family member or friend of an Alzheimer's caregiver and you are not helping them -- you have abandoned them.

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Are Alzheimer's Caregivers the Forgotten?

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Sudden Tears or Laughter

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), emotional lability, labile affect or emotional incontinence refers to a neurologic disorder characterized by involuntary crying or uncontrollable episodes of crying and/or laughing, or other emotional displays.

Dementia Patients Face Needless Transitions at End of Life

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that

nearly one in five nursing home residents with advanced dementia experiences burdensome transitions in the last 90 days of life.

One of the Things that Helped My Mother's Anxiety

I also learned that saying "I love you" whenever your loved one becomes anxious quells fears and leave both parties basking in its glow.

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From the Collective Brain -- One of the Things that Helped My Mother's Anxiety

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When a UTI Goes Undetected in an Dementia Patient

Urinary Tract Infection, You Can Learn From My Experience

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Dementia For Schools

Creating a Dementia Friendly Generation

The young people of today are the employers, employees and carers of tomorrow. Six key reasons have been identified for educating young people about dementia:

1. Young people want to know
2. Increased exposure of young people to dementia
3. Wrong exposure gives the wrong message
4. Optimum learning – relevant to wide parts of the national curriculum, especially PHSE/ PSHEEC
5. The right disorder for connecting first and last generations
6. Public health and early opportunities for health education

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Google Keyword Search - what are the side effects of namenda

More and more patients living with dementia are being treated with the combination of Aricept and Namenda.

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Side Effects of Aricept and Namenda Combination

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Hospital Stays Can be Catastrophic for Dementia Patients

Alzheimer’s patients experience adverse outcomes, delirium

These findings are reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The state of acute confusion and disorientation known as delirium can stem from a serious illness, surgery or infection, and often develops while patients are in the hospital. 

Now a new study confirms that for patients with Alzheimer's disease, hospitalization and delirium pose a particular risk and can lead to adverse outcomes, including hastened cognitive decline, institutionalization and death.

Led by researchers at Harvard Medical School affiliates Hebrew SeniorLife and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), the study appears in the June 19 on-line issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

"Evidence has shown that older patients with Alzheimer's disease [AD] are much more likely to be hospitalized than other older patients," says lead author Tamara Fong, MD, PhD, assistant scientist in the Aging Brain Center, Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife and Assistant Professor of Neurology at BIDMC. "Because our previous research had found that AD patients experienced a three times faster decline in mental function if they had experienced delirium, we wanted to determine if AD patients who are hospitalized are at greater risk for poor outcomes than AD patients who are not hospitalized, and if there is any additive negative outcome when hospitalized AD patients develop delirium."