Make Dementia Your B*tch!

To help find blogs on this site, I have added links by category.

Helpful Ways to Prevent Dementia in Yourself

• Lifestyle Suggestions
• Is it Dementia or Something Else?

Dementia Hype

• Can a diet cure dementia?
• Beware sham science

Meet The Dementias

• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Vascular Dementia
• Lewy Body Dementia 
• Parkinson’s Disease Dementia
• Frontal-temporal Dementia
  • Behavioral-variant FTD
  • 10 things a person with bvFTD wants you to know
  • Costs

Navigating the Healthcare System

• Choice of Neurologist

Crash Course for Dementia Care Partners

Dementia Basics…When the Memory Loss Starts

• Repetition…Questions Over and Over
• Mixed-up memories and “Tall Tales”
• Accidental Triggers/Caregiver Vibes
• Crankiness Irritability
• Entering Dementia Land
• Is it OK to lie?

As the Dementia Becomes Worse

• To Drive or Not to Drive?
• No More Driving
• Decision-Making and Dementia
• Can a person with dementia make safe decisions?
• Is it a good idea to explain to someone with dementia that they have dementia? No!
• What to do when people with dementia cannot eat
• How to get a person with dementia drink more water
• Bladder infections make behavior worse
• Importance of avoiding constipation

Care-Refusals and Uncooperative Behavior

• Fear as the root of refusals
• Preventing Care Resistant Behaviors
• Handling Care Resistance in Real Time
• Avoiding the dreaded “NO!”
• Refusals: Dressing
• Refusals: Bathing
• Refusals: Medication

Difficult or Unusual Caregiving Situations

• Disasters and Dementia
• Delirium
• Sundowning myths and management
• Delusions, Hallucinations, Illusions
• How to tell the difference between hallucinations and illusions
• When People with Dementia Think Their Reflection is a Stranger   
• Unwanted sexual advances

Holidays

• Halloween
• Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s
• Valentine’s Day Message
• Practical gifts for caregivers

Living Life to the Fullest

• Vacations and travel
• Maximizing abilities
• Importance of meaningful activities
• Respite care as an option

Placement & Paid Caregiving

• Is it time for placement?
• Should I hire from an agency or find someone myself?
• 5 critical questions to ask about a memory care unit
• Nursing home versus assisted living
• How often to visit someone in memory care?

Palliative Care

• What is palliative care?
• When should we start palliative care?

Just for the Care Partner

• Back-up plans
• Caring for an adult child with dementia
• Challenges facing employed caregivers
• Unique challenges faced by male care partners
• Criticism of care
• Ten Commandments of Dementia Caregiving
• Ten Things a Person with FTD Wants You to Know