Caregiving in the Dog Days of Summer offers numerous tips for helping Alzheimer’s patients and other elder citizens beat the heat.  It’s also an interesting article because the author tells of his father’s experience and reasons for wanting a basement apartment  rather than one on an upper floor with a view.
                                     Since I live in the United States, I naturally think of beating the heat in summer at this time of year.  In other regions of the world, you may be considering ways to keep warm or beat the cold!
Caregivers need to be particularly sensitive to the needs of Alzheimer’s …read more

Getting Mother to drink enough water, or any fluids for that matter, became a challenge as Alzheimer’s progressed.  She was more likely to drink juice or tea than water.  But sometimes even much of those was difficult.
After she’d taken a couple of sips, she’d clamp her lips tightly shut and refuse to open them, much like a child when they don’t want to take medicine or injest something they dislike.  If you got some in her mouth, she’d decide she’d had enough, and spit it out.
At the nursing home, they tried to have water and juice handy for the residents to …read more