Dementia Dimensions

Dementia Resource Center Blog for At Home Caregivers

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  • Book Review

Useful for Getting to Know Your “Stranger”

There are many revered books by experts for helping loved ones of those with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias to understand a new diagnosis and navigate the degenerative process that follows.
  • Caregiver Perspective

What is Your Caregiver Intensity Score?

Caregiving is a rewarding, yet challenging journey. There may be days when caregiving becomes so intense or so isolating, coming up for a breathe of air can seem impossible.
  • Caregiver Perspective

Raising the Bar’s Newest Resource Could Also Help Caregivers

In an effort to fill the gap of a lack of standards of practice for dementia support that puts people first, the Dementia Action Alliance partnered with the Eden Alternative to initiate Raising the Bar: Creating a Better Society in Which to Live with Dementia.
  • Caregiver Perspective

Monroe County Caregivers Identify Top Dementia Services

Caring for individuals with Alzheimer's disease or dementia was considered a top concern by almost half of respondents in a recent survey of Monroe County residents over the age of 40, which was sponsored by St.
  • Ask Mimi

My mom tells me the same stories, over and over. When I tell her she’s told me already, she gets angry with me. What can I do to get her to get her to stop? -Bob S.

This is easier said than done, but… stop telling her she’s told you. She doesn’t remember, and having her mistake pointed out to her just makes her feel defensive.
  • Ask Mimi, Emotional, Physical

How does one find respite care? I won’t put my wife in nursing home but I really need a break.- Doug S.

Caregiving is an enormous job, and you do need breaks.  See below for some local (Rochester, New York area) resources for respite care.
  • Ask Mimi

My husband is in dementia stage 6/7 and does not like to change his day clothes to night clothes. He also does not know how to use the bathroom. What should we do as we are both over 80? -Sabina S.

It sounds like you are having a hard time. In the short term, maybe you can have your husband's clothes be for day and night--sweatpants, for instance.
  • Ask Mimi

My aunt was diagnosed with stage 5 dementia a couple of months ago. Her mood changes day by day—one day, she cries that her teddy bear has died and the next, it’s sleeping with her and gives her joy. Do I take the teddy bear away or continue to let her care for it?- Gwen F.

Love objects, like stuffed animals or baby dolls, can be very comforting for some people with dementia. But they can pose challenges, such as the worry that the teddy bear has died.
  • Ask Mimi

My mother was just moved into memory care and is not happy about it. Any advice for me and my siblings to help cheer her up? -Bill S.

Sometimes we can’t really “solve” a situation like this. And sometimes we feel the need to solve it more than the elder involved does.

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