Dementia Dimensions

Dementia Resource Center Blog for At Home Caregivers

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  • Ask Mimi

My husband has Alzheimer’s and is recently not knowing me as his wife. Or that our home is our home. This period is increasing in frequency but not in actual time it lasts… like 20 minutes but every other day. What can I expect? Is this indicator of he should be living in assisted living? -June W.

Hi June- I’m sorry. It’s a sad moment when our loved one doesn’t know us. You don’t mention what that 20 minutes is like.
  • Caregiver Perspective

What Are the Most Important Duties of a Dementia Caregiver?

The role of a dementia caregiver can be a challenging yet rewarding experience. It requires patience, empathy, and a deep understanding of the person's needs.
  • Book Review

Relatable Book for All Caregivers

While not specific to caregivers of people living with dementia, if you are a daughter who is serving in supportive capacity to a parent with dementia challenges you will find Working Daughter by Liz O'Donnell to be of comfort.
  • 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.

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