Today's Geriatric Medicine - Alzheimer's/Dementia
Dementia and Inappropriate Sexual Behavior
Cognitive Evaluation for Memory Concerns
Lifestyle Influences Brain Health
Alzheimer's Research Comes of Age
Music and Art in Memory Care
Behavioral Expressions in Dementia Patients
Alzheimer's Diagnosis in Primary Care
Cognitive Decline Screening and Resources
Gait Speed Reflects Cognitive Function
Interventions Slow Brain Atrophy
Lighting Affects Dementia Patients’ Sleep
Therapeutic Options in Alzheimer’s Disease
Holistic and Creative Arts Therapies in Alzheimer’s Care
Fish Oils and Cognitive Function
Alzheimer’s Disease and the Blood-Brain Barrier
Evidence-Based Memory Preservation Nutrition
New Target for Therapy in AD Patients
Memory Maintenance
Pharmacological Prospects for Alzheimer’s Treatment
Medications Target Alzheimer’s Disease
What Should You Tell Patients About Alzheimer’s?
DBS to Treat Alzheimer’s Patients?
The Gait-Cognitive Decline Connection
Can You Recognize Lewy Body Dementia?
Recruiting Patients for Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials
Dementia and DSM-5: Changes, Cost, and Confusion
Alzheimer’s Staggering Financial Impact
12/15-Lipoxygenase’s Role in AD Prevention
New Technology to Detect, Diagnose AD
Dementia Care Model Facilitates Quality Outcomes
Integrating Palliative Medicine With Dementia Care
Dementia-Related Behavior Management
Combating Dementia With Infrared Light?
Deep Brain Stimulation
Becoming ADEPT at Predicting Mortality
New Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease
MMSE vs. MoCA: What You Should Know
Vitamins and Dementia — Delaying Cognitive Decline?
Dealing With Dysphagia
New Molecular Tools Developed in Alzheimer’s Research
Hope for an Alzheimer’s Cure?
Alzheimer’s Cure on the Horizon?
Imaging Alzheimer’s Disease
Cognitive Camouflage — How Alzheimer’s Can Mask Mental Illness
How the Invention of Alzheimer's World Changed My Life Alzheimer's Reading Room
How the Invention of Alzheimer's World Changed My Life Alzheimer's Reading Room: How the Invention of Alzheimer's World Changed My Life
Alzheimer's Reading Room The best way to find Solutions to the Problems that Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers face each Day
The best way to find Solutions to the Problems that Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers face each Day
- See more at: http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2011/07/why-i-invented-alzheimers-world-and.html#sthash.xGvr50v3.dpuf
The best way to find Solutions to the Problems that Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers face each Day
- See more at: http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2011/07/why-i-invented-alzheimers-world-and.html#sthash.xGvr50v3.dpuf
Alzheimer's Reading Room The best way to find Solutions to the Problems that Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers face each Day
The best way to find Solutions to the Problems that Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers face each Day
The best way to find Solutions to the Problems that Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers face each Day
Dealing With Angry Seniors Under the Same Roof By Sarah Peterman on July 8, 2015
Angry & Elderly: Dealing With Angry Seniors Under the Same Roof http://tinyurl.com/oqc8g56
By Sarah Peterman on July 8, 2015 under Aging in Place as a Family, Process of Aging, Senior Care Advice
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By Sarah Peterman on July 8, 2015 under Aging in Place as a Family, Process of Aging, Senior Care Advice
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Every experienced family caregiver knows that seniors have their good days and bad days. Mood swings resulting from dissatisfaction, poor health, stress, pain, and a loss of dignity can easily lead to your loved one to lash out against you and others that they care about. Being a family caregiver under these conditions can be particularly stressful for the sandwich generation, who are “sandwiched” between living with an elderly parent and caring for their own children.
While dealing with these feelings and the emotional strain they cause can require a considerable amount of patience and empathy, there’s much more you can do than simply hope for more good days than bad ones. Below you can learn about several simple steps you can take to help those you look after to be less cranky, and help preserve your own wellbeing as a family caregiver in the process.
Download A Free Guide to Dealing with Elderly Anger
Emotional Turmoil in the Elderly
Getting older can magnify our character traits, often in undesirable ways. Someone who was crabby in their younger days may be prone to full-on bouts of rage in old age. Unfortunately, caregivers are often the target of these outbursts, and it may seem at times as though there may be no simple solution to deal with this type of behavior. After all, when outbursts are not caused by serious problems like chronic pain or difficulties in memory, they’re often the result of serious illnesses like Alzheimer’s or dementia, over which your loved one has no control.
How to Handle Anger
The first step to dealing with these problems is to understand that you shouldn’t take these negative emotions and their associated behavior personally. Pain and disease can cause us to act in very inappropriate ways, and it’s important to take any opportunity for a break from your caregiving duties that you can get. In the long term, you’ll likely want to spread caregiving amongst as many friends and family members as you can to make the possibility of these breaks more frequent.
The best solution to dealing with difficult elderly parents is almost always communication. Unfortunately, parents can be generally uneasy talking with their children about fears of the future, finances, and their mortality. If your loved one seems increasingly frustrated, anxious, or otherwise emotionally disturbed, it’s your responsibility to find out why if you want to help fix the problem. The next time both of you are in a pleasant mood, try warming them up to the conversation, and be ready to try several times before you’re successful.{END QUOTE}
Read more: http://www.griswoldhomecare.com/blog/dealing-with-elderly-anger/#ixzz3fUK21wz9
Legal Issues – Revoking prior Powers of Attorney
From Jim Koewler's The Koewler Law Firm website
The agent named in a now-revoked POA may not be happy about being
replaced. That deposed agent may use the authority in the old POA to
take actions with the principal’s assets. The bank or investment office
or real estate agent (or anyone else, for that matter) has no way to
know that the POA has been revoked. (Not many former agents would act
out in this manner, but those few that would certainly can hurt their
principals.)
To avoid an old POA being accepted as current, there are practical steps (in addition to the legal steps) to revoke an old POA.
The principal should try to retrieve all of the copies of the prior
POAs. Retrieving all of them can be a daunting task if there are a
number of copies. (Most POAs have a statement that a copy is to be
honored just like an original, so retrieval of copies is important.)
For advice, representation and peace of mind through these difficult issues, contact Jim Koewler of The Koewler Law Firm. Legal Issues when someone has Dementia – Revoke prior Powers of Attorney |
The agent named in a now-revoked POA may not be happy about being
replaced. That deposed agent may use the authority in the old POA to
take actions with the principal’s assets. The bank or investment office
or real estate agent (or anyone else, for that matter) has no way to
know that the POA has been revoked. (Not many former agents would act
out in this manner, but those few that would certainly can hurt their
principals.)
To avoid an old POA being accepted as current, there are practical steps (in addition to the legal steps) to revoke an old POA.
The principal should try to retrieve all of the copies of the prior
POAs. Retrieving all of them can be a daunting task if there are a
number of copies. (Most POAs have a statement that a copy is to be
honored just like an original, so retrieval of copies is important.)
For advice, representation and peace of mind through these difficult issues, contact Jim Koewler of The Koewler Law Firm. Legal Issues when someone has Dementia – Revoke prior Powers of Attorney |
CMS will modify—not scrap—two-midnight' rule - Modern Healthcare
Under the two-midnight rule, the CMS directs its payment contractors to assume a hospital admission was appropriate if a patient's stay spanned two midnights and otherwise should have been billed as an outpatient observation visit.
The rule was conceived to address a spike in observation stays attributed to hospitals' fear that Medicare audit contractors would challenge their admissions.
Many patients, as a result, found themselves ineligible for skilled nursing after spending days in the hospital because their stay had been billed as observation.
CMS will modify—not scrap—two-midnight' rule - Modern Healthcare
The rule was conceived to address a spike in observation stays attributed to hospitals' fear that Medicare audit contractors would challenge their admissions.
Many patients, as a result, found themselves ineligible for skilled nursing after spending days in the hospital because their stay had been billed as observation.
CMS will modify—not scrap—two-midnight' rule - Modern Healthcare
5 Steps for Dealing with Anticipatory Grief - Visiting Nurse Service of New York
5 Steps for Dealing with Anticipatory Grief - Visiting Nurse Service of New York: It might be the hardest part of caregiving: Watching your loved one slip away step by terrible step, knowing you can’t stop the decline and grieving the loss of the person you once knew, long before they’re actually gone. Psychologists call this process anticipatory grief, and it’s very common among caregivers and family members of those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and other terminal illnesses.
“As a disease progresses, there is so much frustration and sadness associated with watching the person you once knew go away,” says Vince Corso, M.Div, LCSW, CT, Manager of Hospice Psychosocial Services, VNSNY. “It can be overwhelming.”
“As a disease progresses, there is so much frustration and sadness associated with watching the person you once knew go away,” says Vince Corso, M.Div, LCSW, CT, Manager of Hospice Psychosocial Services, VNSNY. “It can be overwhelming.”
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