Alzheimer’s Care
Your parent has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and has special needs that will change with the progressive nature of the condition.
Handling Parent Care Challenges
Navigating Eldercare Challenges from Abroad
Each family’s parent care challenges are unique – shaped by a parent’s physical, mental and emotional condition and by family dynamics and circumstances. Examples below are common challenges. When a warning flag calls you to parent care action, you might find yourself faced with one of these. For each example of a “challenge”, the “care manager solution” describes how a geriatric care manager can help.
Example
Care Manager Solution
Challenge
A geriatric care manager, whose practice focuses on clients with Alzheimer’s and dementia, can gain your parent’s trust and help your parent maintain functionality and quality of life as the disease progresses. She can advise the family as they prepare for the time when your parent will no longer be competent to make his or her own decisions. The support of a care manager can help the family cope with a parent’s behaviors that can be annoying, hurtful, and heartbreaking.
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