| Dealing with alzheimer's [Locked - Redundant]
Posted: 12/4/2006 2:29:52 PM | | I have a woman that is almost like a grand mother to me, she used to date my grandfather before he passed away and we've just kind of adopted her because she has no other family in the area. She's recently been diagnosed as Pre Alzheimer's and I was wondering if there is anyone out there that can give me any ideas on how to deal with this disease. I've only ever been around one other person that had it, she was my great aunt and she passed away years ago. If anyone can give my mother and I any tips on how to deal with the whole thing, That would be great. We've just been very patient up until now but I can't seem to think of anything that would make her life easier as well as ours with the memory. Thank you very much. | |
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d1000
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Joined: 10/15/2006
Msg: 2 | |
| Dealing with alzheimer's
Posted: 12/4/2006 3:17:55 PM | | Be as strong, understanding and patient as you can because it's curtains and in a very undignified way as I'm sure you know. There is nothing you can do besides being supportive and making the best of time. I lost my mother to the same thing years ago, it is a cruel condition. If I ever start to show marked symptoms I'm going to go hang-out in Amsterdam with my sister for a few days then get euthanized. | |
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| Dealing with alzheimer's
Posted: 12/4/2006 3:28:48 PM | | Make a memory book with this patient. Your mother and you can both work on it. Find old photographs of family and friends she may have had..annotate them in clear simple block letters (make a legend to explain each photograph). This is becoming an excepted practice to help these patients 'relearn' their fading memories of their past, especially since the older memories that have many neural connections (harder to damage) are maintained. Take pictures of her, and yourselves as well, so that she will recognize you..Make sure you refer to the memory book frequently and that its easily found at hand. | |
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calaf
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Joined: 2/27/2006
Msg: 4 | |
| Dealing with alzheimer's
Posted: 12/4/2006 4:03:56 PM | I urge people to go out and aquire investigational medications. You have seen my other thread on AD treatments. There may be a combination of existing medications that will slow AD a lot, but they have not been tested yet. It is surprising how many people jus give up.
I found that doing crossword puzzles helped a bit. Anything that keeps the mind active. I found that sometimes reminding my father of things that he had forgotten just got him upset. So if we went to rent a movie I would not remind him that we had already seen it. | |
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