Caregiving Strategies For Dementia, Cognitive Decline: Senior Health & Living Podcast

Caregiving Strategies For Dementia, Cognitive Decline: Senior Health & Living Podcast

The newest episode of Senior Care Authority's Boomers Today Podcast features Marcy Baskin, a Certified Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Trainer.

Baskin shares tips she has learned through her own experiences as an Alzheimer's Association support group facilitator and a daughter whose mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. When visiting a loved one with dementia, she urges you to remember that people with compromised cognitive function can be sensitive to body language.

Using short sentences and refraining from Baskin also stresses that it’s important offering too many choices can reduce not to get frustrated if your loved one confusion, which in turn can spur productive doesn’t understand you or remember communication and help your loved one feel something that you’ve said. calm.

For visits to go smoothly, she says that it can sometimes be helpful for you to introduce yourself at the start. Small acts like these can vastly improve communication.

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