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Mental Health

As caregivers, we often forget to check our mental well-being while caring for our loved ones. How do you manage your mental health? For example, sing, dance, walk in the...

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Agitation: What are your go-to strategies when calming a loved one's agitation?

Alzheimer's disease can be incredibly frustrating - not only for the people around them, like family and friends, trying to adjust to this new reality, but also for the person!...

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Where can I get Help?

Good Afternoon, Everyone this my first time here. I would like to know where I can get guidance,help. To what doctor to see,what test I should get done. I recently...

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What's the toilet for? Incontinence and bathroom are our main problem.

I read a lot on Alz websites and resources about incontinence or when your loved one does want to go to the bathroom. What about when their brain no longer...

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Advice for how to approach parents about cognitive issues when they will be in complete denial?

The signs are there, but every time we've suggested that there may be some cognitive issues with our Mom, there is complete denial and excuses. I know this community has...

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What is one thing you would tell someone beginning their journey with Alzheimer's Disease (as a caregiver or facing the disease themselves)?

We all started somewhere with this. I guess I would lovingly tell someone to brush up on their "patience" skills. [Poll] What is the most important thing for someone new...

Does your loved one living with Alzheimer’s disease live in your home with you?

Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s Disease is challenging. Bringing them into your home has particular challenges, especially if you are still raising your own family. It’s a whole...

Sole Caregiver

Hi folks, I'm my wife's sole caregiver. Inability to stand or walk, incontenence, halucinations and lack of appetite are a daily "thing" for us. My wife and I are both...

Driving

Does anyone have experience with a loved one flat-out REFUSING to be told they are not to drive, even after two doctors as well as two State Troopers and one...

Suggestions for managing headaches with 89 year old mother with AD?

Taking Aricept, Buspar, Respirdol...

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