Care Team Calendar | Caregiver Center | Alzheimer's Association: The Alzheimer's Association Care Team Calendar, powered by Lotsa Helping Hands, is a free, personalized online tool to organize family and friends who want to help with caregiving. This service makes it easy to share activities and information with your community. Here's how:
Helpers can sign up for specific tasks, such as preparing meals, providing rides or running errands. You can post items for which assistance is needed.
From your Care Team Calendar, friends and family can access AlzConnected message boards, post announcements and photos, and share information.
Alzheimer's Association New Caregiver Center
Alzheimer's Association: New Caregiver Center
Caregivers need resources, information and support. Find all three in our new Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiver Center.
Caregivers need resources, information and support. Find all three in our new Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiver Center.
Medicare - A Primer from http://www.ourparents.com/
Medicare - A Primer
Medicare is a health insurance program designed primarily for people over the age of 65 or people that are younger the age of 65 but suffer from major disabilities. Medicare is federally issued health insurance that was created in the 1960’s to assure that older American’s had health insurance and resulted in a up-swing in the amount of health care facilities and practices across the country.
National Institute on Aging | The Leader in Aging Research
National Institute on Aging | The Leader in Aging Research: HHS is seeking comments on the draft National Plan to fully engage the Alzheimer’s disease community, the public, states, local governments, community based service organizations, the private sector and others in its development. Public comment will be accepted through March 30, 2012 and should be e-mailed to napa@hhs.gov.
Creating and maintaining an integrated national plan to overcome Alzheimer’s disease is part of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 4, 2011.
The draft plan has five goals:
Prevent and Effectively Treat Alzheimer’s Disease by 2025.
Optimize Care Quality and Efficiency.
Expand Supports for People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Their Families
Enhance Public Awareness and Engagement.
Track Progress and Drive Improvement.
These five goals, the supporting strategies and action steps proposed in the plan reflects input from the Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care, and Services (http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/napa/#Council) and almost 100 public comments received on an initial framework for the draft.
Alzheimer's Paid Caregivers Peer to Peer Connector | LinkedIn
Alzheimer's Paid Caregivers Peer to Peer Connector | LinkedIn: Members are encouraged to invite people to this group to help it grow faster. Subgroups Auto-Join: Any member of the main group may join subgroups without requiring approval from a manager. ........
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275556&trk=group_mgt_name Certified Home Health Aides (C.H.H.A.’s) Alzheimer's Specialists
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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275546&trk=group_mgt_name Certified Nursing Aides (C.N.A.’s)
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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275548&trk=group_mgt_name Certified Nursing Aides (C.N.A.’s) Alzheimer's Specialists
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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275564&trk=group_mgt_name In-Home Social Workers Alzheimer's Support
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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275539&trk=group_mgt_name Non-Medical Carers & Caregivers a subgroup of Alzheimer's Paid Caregivers Peer to Peer Connect
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275556&trk=group_mgt_name Certified Home Health Aides (C.H.H.A.’s) Alzheimer's Specialists
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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275546&trk=group_mgt_name Certified Nursing Aides (C.N.A.’s)
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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275548&trk=group_mgt_name Certified Nursing Aides (C.N.A.’s) Alzheimer's Specialists
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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275564&trk=group_mgt_name In-Home Social Workers Alzheimer's Support
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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4275539&trk=group_mgt_name Non-Medical Carers & Caregivers a subgroup of Alzheimer's Paid Caregivers Peer to Peer Connect
Management of Agitation Behavior
Management of Agitation Behavior: Management of Agitation Behavior
By Rich O'Boyle, Editor
One of the greatest impacts on quality of life for families and their loved ones with Alzheimer’s Disease is the presence of agitation behavior in the middle stages of the disease process. More than half of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease exhibit some type of "agitation" behavior over the course of a year, in addition to depression or psychosis. Experts suggest that the best way to manage agitation is through environmental and atmosphere changes rather than medications. Medications are a last resort.
About » All Things Caregiver
About » All Things Caregiver: About
I am a young woman who transitioned into adulthood while caring for, and emotionally supporting, my mother through her six-and-a-half year battle with breast cancer. I was eighteen years old when she was diagnosed and two months shy of my twenty-fifth birthday when she passed. My mother was diagnosed at age forty-four, and fought long enough to see her fiftieth birthday.
I am not a doctor, nor am I a nurse. I am not a lawyer, pharmacist, hospice care individual, psychiatrist or family therapist. I am simply an individual who has lived the life of a full time caregiver and I intend on sharing some of my personal experiences in hopes of providing help to others caregivers in a similar situations. Caregiving is a universal practice, meaning this blog will help anyone at any stage of the caregiving process.
topics a personal executor may need to have access to upon a moment’s notice
topics a personal executor may need to have access to upon a moment’s notice:
For a caregiver (or the CEO of Caring for My Loved One, Inc.), the holidays are a perfect time to organize “Board of Directors” meetings of adult family members.
These meetings can be held after holiday dinners, poolside, or anywhere you and your loved ones gather. We will continue to share topics of interest for these meetings in upcoming communiqués, but one of the most important topics may not have anything to do with the loved one for whom you care as much as it has to do with you.
The topic of at least one of these meetings is what needs to be done in case of your own illness or passing. In fact, all adult members of your family need to establish a Personal Records Management solution.
Below, you will find a really interesting list of some of the less obvious topics a personal executor may need to have access to upon a moment’s notice:Board of Directors list
For a caregiver (or the CEO of Caring for My Loved One, Inc.), the holidays are a perfect time to organize “Board of Directors” meetings of adult family members.
These meetings can be held after holiday dinners, poolside, or anywhere you and your loved ones gather. We will continue to share topics of interest for these meetings in upcoming communiqués, but one of the most important topics may not have anything to do with the loved one for whom you care as much as it has to do with you.
The topic of at least one of these meetings is what needs to be done in case of your own illness or passing. In fact, all adult members of your family need to establish a Personal Records Management solution.
Below, you will find a really interesting list of some of the less obvious topics a personal executor may need to have access to upon a moment’s notice:Board of Directors list
Facebook app called Who Cares?
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers eNewsletter:
We have just launched a new Facebook app called Who Cares?
The awareness-raising app is aimed at people who may not have first-hand experience of caring. We hope that the app will make them think about the tremendous task carers are doing.
The app encourages users to think about who among their own Facebook friends could take on the role of carer, and then simulates, in the form of Facebook messages, the impact of caring on carers' social lives and friendships.
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