Tips for Managing Tasks
In the early-to-mild stage of Alzheimer’s disease, patients can still drive, enjoy reading, and enjoy doing crossword puzzles and games. They can perform tasks such as cooking, folding laundry, gardening, and entertaining. They can still make decisions (sometimes with assistance), and they can still reason and show good judgment. A person with a dementing illness depends on a certain amount of structure in their daily routine. This consistency is important in helping them minimize the amount of stress the person with memory loss...
read moreNavigating the World of Your Inner Self – The Self Care Zodiac – Gemini
Question: What do Anne Frank, Michael J. Fox, and Angelina Jolie share in common? Answer: They are all Gemini’s and each has made dramatic public statements about facing fear. Background: Gemini 20 May – 21 June Gemini (Gem-en-i.e.) (♊) is the third astrological sign in the Zodiac, originating from the constellation of Gemini. In astrology, Gemini is considered a “masculine”, positive (extrovert) sign. It is also considered an air sign, and is one of four mutable signs.[1] For the personality traits or factors...
read moreMonday Mojo – Honoring Veteran’s – Honor Flight
In observance of Memorial Day, the Alzheimer’s Care Resource Center honors all Veterans and especially those that are also caregivers. The Honor Flight Network is a non-profit organization created solely to honor America’s veterans for all their sacrifices. Enjoy these pictures from the past honor flight homecoming celebration. As a caregiver, it is important to embrace the memories from you and your loved ones past. “To honor the Veterans. With bravery and strength they serve, with dignity and pride they stand, with courage...
read moreAlzheimer’s In Home Assisted Living Care in Wellington, Florida
As the care provider of a family member or friend who has Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or some other type of other cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s In home assisted living care in Wellington can be your best method of finding the kind of comprehensive geriatric care management services. Finding the right kind of care provider can offer you your best options when it comes to care. In many cases family members and friends just don’t know where to start to find the right kind of Alzheimer’s in home assisted living care in...
read moreIn Home Alzheimer’s care services in Delray Beach
The health care of your family members is important to you. When it comes to caring for someone who is ill and may be affected by Alzheimer’s disease it becomes more so. While they may be able to care for themselves to a certain extent, it is imperative that you ensure their care is the best and they remain healthy and safe in the home. Keeping an older adult with Alzheimer’s disease or another cognitive disorder in their own home or in yours is often the best answer that you can give them. They are in surroundings which are familiar and...
read moreTherapeutic Thursday – “Fishing for Information” – For Male Caregivers
The number of male family caregivers has often been unrecognized, but not anymore! In the last 15 years, the percentage of men caring for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease has more than doubled, from 19 percent in 1996 to 40 percent in 2009, and has continued growing rapidly! Now we want to make sure that you are able to Fish for Information and get a great catch here at the Alzheimer’s Care Resource Center. Too many times we see caregivers who try to do it all alone but those who seek outside help with tasks are less...
read moreAlzheimer’s and Dementia Care Services in Wellington, Florida
In Wellington, Florida, it’s a wonderful area for raising children and it’s equally comfortable and relaxing for the elderly. As a provider for someone who is elderly and has dementia or another cognitive disorder, you want to keep them safe and secure, but sometimes the ways and means to accomplish that is beyond our scope of knowledge. In most cases, the older family member who has a serious cognitive disorder can endanger themselves without meaning to do so. Many times they are aware of who they are and where they are one minute...
read moreMonday Mojo – Healthy Caregiving – Alzheimer’s Care West Palm Beach
As a caregiver it’s important to set an intention for yourself every day. What are you going to do for yourself today? Whether that’s taking time for a hobby or meditation. Anything that you can do for yourself will help you to be a healthy caregiver. Remember that asking for help is not a sign of weakness; it’s a sign of strength and courage. We all need some help with our care giving roles. And even in those most difficult care giving days, remember that when your care receiver lashes out at you, it’s the disease that’s talking,...
read moreNon-Profit Provides Only Dementia Specific Hurricane Preparedness Program in Palm Beach County
As the only non-profit organization in Palm Beach, Broward, Martin and St. Lucie counties dedicated strictly to meeting the needs of Alzheimer’s caregivers, the Alzheimer’s Care Resource Center provides the only dementia specific hurricane preparedness program that addresses the challenges, and meets the unique needs, faced by caregivers before, during and after a storm. For caregivers that live both locally and out-of-state, The Alzheimer’s Care Resource Center offers extensive dementia specific hurricane and disaster...
read moreWednesday Workshop – How to Manage Hoarding in the Alzheimer’s Patient
Picture this…your mom or dad live in Florida, and you live out of state and have not been able to visit, although you do talk on the phone all the time. Perhaps you’ve had a nagging feeling afterwards that something wasn’t quite right. Then one day you get a phone call…maybe it was a fall, or perhaps a bout with pneumonia, and they had to go to the hospital. So you come to Florida to help, and when you walk into the house you see… Newspapers everywhere, and a narrow aisle to walk through between the stacks… Piles of unopened boxes...
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