In-Home Alzheimer's/Dementia Care
Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other cognitive abilities, serious enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60-80% of dementia cases (www.alz.org).
When someone is living with advancing Alzheimer’s/Dementia, remembering to bathe, dress, and eat get more challenging. Even the ability to remember how to walk can pose a problem.
Unity Care Companion Team can assist with these, and many other challenges related to the disease:
- Medication Management – taking medications as scheduled/prescribed
- Personal Care & Hygiene – bathing, grooming, a decrease in personal hygiene, or challenges in wearing clean and weather appropriate clothing
- Housekeeping – cluttered and unkempt home including accumulation of garbage, outdated or spoiled food in the refrigerator and dirty laundry/dishes
- Nutrition – shopping for and preparing well balanced meals to maintain a steady weight
- Behavior/Mental Health – feelings of loneliness, isolation, boredom, anxiety, depression, or issues with confusion/memory
- Mobility - walking with a steady gate, getting up from a seated position or frequent falls
- Medical Condition – a recently diagnosed disease or progressing illness
Unity can help patients and families understand this illness with Unity’s Dementia Care Patient & Caregiver Guide. The guide will educate on signs and symptoms of Dementia, how to live with this illness to retain quality of life.
Learn more about how Unity Care Companions can help you and your loved one by visiting UnityHospice.org/CareCompanions.
Access Unity’s Dementia Care-Patient and Caregiver Guide which represents the best standards of care for mid, to advanced, to end-stage dementia with the collective input of 100+ not-for-profit hospice, palliative, and advanced illness care organizations at UnityHospice.org/caregiver-education.com.