Tips for caregivers

People can live with Alzheimer's disease for many years. Over the years, the person will experience various changes in their ability to function independently. As time goes by, the person living with dementia will need more support in all aspects of their daily lives.

The changes result from the intellectual and functional impairment that characterizes Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

The behaviors can be: lack of interest, apathy, restlessness, and wandering at all hours of the day and night, etc. These phenomena can make it difficult to stay with the person with dementia and cause the caregiver to feel helpless due to the lack of tools to cope.

Understanding the causes of these behaviors and acquiring tools to deal with them may make family life and the care of the person living with dementia easier.

Here is a variety of advice and ways to deal with the difficulties that people with dementia and their caregivers encounter in daily life.