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Alzheimer's caregiving: Day-to-day challenges.

Publication: Harvard Women's Health Watch
Publication Date: 01-APR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Alzheimer's caregiving: Day-to-day challenges.(Report)

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Alzheimer's caregiving: Day-to-day challenges

Bath time, mealtime, and bedtime are among the hardest parts of the day. Here are some ways to get through them.

Alzheimer's disease has a profound emotional impact on the family members who must cope with a loved one's irrevocable decline. There are many legal and financial issues that need to be addressed as quickly as possible, but family members often report that the day-to-day challenges of caring for someone with Alzheimer's weigh far more heavily.

It's important to remember that the abilities of a person with Alzheimer's disease can fluctuate from day to day and even from hour to hour, for the same reasons that abilities fluctuate in healthy people: fatigue, anxiety, discomfort, illness, or medication effects. Uneven loss of abilities...

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