Problems finding your way around may be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease

The ability to find your way around, find you way home, or find your way around in new places could be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease.

Problems finding your way around may be earliest sign of Alzheimer’s disease, study suggests

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Predicting the Rate of Decline In Alzheimer's Patients

The rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease has been noted to vary significantly among patients. The ability to predict the probable rate of decline early in the disease process would be of great practical importance.

Alzheimer's caregivers are always searching for an answer to this question - What is going to happen Next?

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Dementia and False Accusations

It is not unusual for Alzheimer's and dementia patients to make false accusations.

The natural tendency for most Alzheimer's caregivers is to try and explain, and sometimes in a heated fashion, that we did not do what we are being accused of by a dementia patient.

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Dementia, Accusations, and Fractured Fairy Tales

How to Get a Person Living with Dementia to Cooperate - Caregiver Tips

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Everything you do with a person living with Alzheimer's has to start and end with positive reinforcement.

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Rewiring My Brain and Stepping into Alzheimer's World

Once you start to understand how things work in Alzheimer's World you get calm and comfortable. Once you get calm and comfortable you give off a better "vibe" to someone that has Alzheimer's.

By Bob DeMarco 
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I would find a new way to communicate with my mother who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

I wrote that on my da Vinci pad in 2004. This was at the same time I was coming to another conclusion, something had to change and that something was me.

I did not perceived the changes in communication as being difficult. After all, I had been studying communication and decision making all the way back to college days, and ever since. I figured some practice and I would get the hang of it.

What I did not immediately perceive was how difficult it would be to change all the things I had learned over the course of my life. 


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