3 Tips to Help Your Aging Loved One Cope With Alzheimer's

Sadly, one in three senior citizens die with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. It’s estimated that there are currently 5.7 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s, and that number is expected to increase to as much as 14 million by 2050.

Living well with chronic diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia can be incredibly difficult, especially if your aging loved ones aren’t sure of their condition. Thankfully, there are some things that you can do to help them out on both a day-to-day basis and some larger scale instances.

Here are some great tips for helping your aging loved one better deal with their newly discovered Alzheimer’s disease:

• • Consider in home care — Living well with chronic diseases is much more achievable if there are in home care health professionals assisting your elderly loved one throughout every step of the disease. Even though you want to be there for your aging parent or loved one as much as possible, you have a family and job of your own — so you physically can’t be there at all times. But in home care professionals can, which is great for Alzheimer’s patients.

• • Develop and stick to a routine — Though an Alzheimer’s diagnoses will certainly change someone’s life forever, that doesn’t mean they can’t stick to a routine that they used to do. Since changes are often quite difficult for dementia patients, you should help them create and stick to a routine around the house. Additionally, the at home care professional can assist your parent throughout their routine.

• Understand there will be bad days — It’s virtually impossible to get through an Alzheimer’s diagnoses without any problematic days. Understand that there will be days and nights filled with negative comments, judgments, frustrations, and more; but it can still get better. Talk to your aging loved one like an adult throughout these rough patches, and do your best to convey to them that things will get better and it’s not all bad.

If you want to learn more about living well with chronic diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia, as well as work with home care and end of life care professionals, give Fedelta Home Care a call right away.