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Care for Adults with Special Needs

Antipsychotic Drugs for Paranoia in Dementia

Paranoia in Dementia Dementia is a term used for diseases and conditionscaused by a decline in memory, language and thinking skills affecting a person’s ability to carry out day-to-day activities. The most common cause of Dementia is Alzheimer’s. Dementia patients can often be found suffering from undesirable emotions such as fear, anger and jealousy. This sort ...
Parkinson's Dementia Aggression

Parkinson’s Dementia Aggression

Parkinson’s Dementia Aggression is the aggression stemming from Parkinson’s disease Dementia that impairs thought processes, mental functions, and memory. Though Parkinson’s Disease is known to be a progressive disease of the nervous system that affects a person’s mobility and ability to carry out day-to-day activities, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia can result in severe cognitive decline. PD ...
Care for Adults with Special Needs

Dementia Related Hygiene Problems and How To Handle

What is Dementia? Dementia is one of the cruelest syndromes that can afflict seniors. One should call it a syndrome and not a disease because symptoms of dementia are omnipresent in more than one disease. Dementia causes progressive memory loss as well as affecting a person’s ability in language, problem solving and rational thinking. There are ...
Alzheimer's & Dementia

Ways to Respond When Alzheimer’s & Dementia Patients Says I Want to Go Home

Patients suffering from Alzheimer’s & Dementia in residential care often want to go home. To those around them such as caregivers, this can be very daunting. It is a known fact that Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients experience a continuous decline in thinking, behavioral and social skills disrupting their ability to think independently. In such tricky ...
Dementia & Alzheimer's

What is the Difference between Dementia and Alzheimer’s?

Usually considered as similar memory disorders, Dementia and Alzheimer's can be very different in terms of their definition, symptoms, causes and memory care treatments required. Alzheimer's is a popular type of Dementia that hampers memory, thought and language; it is further affected by the passing time. Whereas, Dementia is a broader term for a memory ...
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