Who Can Stay Dementia Alzheimers Disease

As a care coordinator functioning in the community Home Care Path receives multiple calls daily requesting information on helping a senior with memory loss stay home.  In the Wisconsin State Journal Newspaper Doctor Zorba Paster states reported numbers of individuals diagnosed with dementia, Alzheimer's disease is on the rise. 

The most evident symptom that families see is the seniors inability (short term memory) to record new experiences and then retrieve those recorded experiences to help the day move along safely. 
This can look like the senior asking family the same question repetitively despite seeming to have received a satisfactory answer.

This can be tricky because often the long term memory is intact.  The senior can recall past experiences.  This is where family begins to recognize the senior's intimate connection in the mind to the physical objects that make up the dwelling.  The consistent presentation of familiar objects in the setting provides the senior with a mental, emotional sense of safety. 

Typically seniors with memory loss benefit from the presence of another.  This is called custodial care, or in home supportive care.  The primary care giver will often ask for outside help as a respite, or break from the long commitment.   The incoming worker can best help with senior by understanding the current daily regimen.  Keep doing what is working, and the familiarity helps the senior feel safe.

The memory loss is a symptom within a progressive medical condition.  Change is gradually predictive to require more help as time goes on.  Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com has determined that households seem to do better with groups of workers who cooperate with each other to deliver the support needed to keep the household functioning on a safe level.   It can be nice knowing another can come to help should someone need a break for an unexpected life event.

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 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life.