Dementia and Alzheimers

Alzheimer’s Battle For Both Patient and Caregiver – Alzheimer’s Disease Help and Treatments at Home

For the afflicted ones and their caregivers, an Alzheimer’s diagnosis is something like a death sentence. At first, the effects are almost unnoticeable: you cannot find keys or forget friends or relatives names. The losses often occur over many years. As Alzheimer’s disease continues to destroy nerve cells in the brain, the incidents become more frequent. Along with progressive Memory Loss, you may become moody and agitated, and begin wandering often in the middle of the night. Eventually, the severity of the problem becomes manifest, for example as you get lost walking on the street where you have lived for 30 years!

Why Alzheimer’s disease leads to a battle for both patient and caregiver? What kind of help a person with Alzheimer’s can receive at home?

Someone who is listening attentively his doctor giving The Alzheimer’s diagnosis has all the reasons in the world to believe that the end of the world has started. Why? The terror is acute in this early stage of the disease, because the person still has enough self-awareness to know that something is terribly wrong. Then, the battle is on. What kind of battle? Against bad feelings! This person may start thinking: If I cannot remember who I am and recognize my wife or my husband, I’m going to become just an empty shell of my person. Depression phase can start or increase quickly.

In the middle stage of Alzheimer’s, they no longer possess that awareness. Sufferers recognize fewer loved ones, have hallucinations, and regress into a childlike dependence. They may get lost in their own homes. They need help dressing, bathing, and toileting. Conversations with middle-stage sufferers are difficult, because they may no longer remember thoughts long enough to express them or recall questions long enough to answer them.

The late stage of Alzheimer’s is probably the worst for caregivers and loved ones. In this stage, sufferers lose continence and the ability to walk by themselves. At the end, they may forget how to swallow, even how to breathe.

Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease at home is a challenging task. It is another kind of battle for the caregiver: how to be able to help the Alzheimer’s victim without being overwhelmed? Here are a few helpful tips that can help both patient and caregiver:

-  Adjust your communication approach to the patient’s changing needs as the disease progresses.

-  Schedule wisely. Determine the time of day when the patient is most calm and agreeable. Schedule the most difficult tasks, such as bathing or medical appointments, for that time period.

-  Establish routines in activities of daily living.

-  Let him or her help. Involve the person in tasks as much as possible.

-  Set up a safe home environment.

-  Maintaining social contacts and fun. Schedule visitors. Even if the person with Alzheimer’s does not recognize those who visit, the contact is important and valuable for him or for her.

-  Limit choices. Having fewer options makes deciding easier.

There are currently two drug classes that have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease:

1) Cholinesterase inhibitors (Aricept, Exelon, Razadyne, cognex)  

2) N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists (Namenda)

 In the other hand, alternative treatment is another medicine field that has demonstrated interesting results. Scientific agree with the idea that Alzheimer’s is not the ‘disease’ at all but it is a “symptom” of a damaged inner terrain that simply is too polluted, toxic, and acidic. It has been proved that when you “cleanse” the body from the overflow of acids, it starts to heal and rebuild itself. It starts to recover and gradually it starts to reverse your Alzheimer’s and restore your body to a state of vibrant health and energy!

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