The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-proofing Your Home

The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-proofing Your Home
Author: Mark L. Warner
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2000
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781557532206

Shows how to create a home environment that helps cope with the difficulties associated with AD and related dementia. The author deals with both interior and exterior spaces, discussing problems and solutions associated with specific areas such as the kitchen, bathroom, corridors, patios and decks. Separate chapters focus on issues related to AD such as wandering, incontinence and access limitation.

The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-proofing Your Home

The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-proofing Your Home
Author: Mark L. Warner
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2000
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781557532206

Shows how to create a home environment that helps cope with the difficulties associated with AD and related dementia. The author deals with both interior and exterior spaces, discussing problems and solutions associated with specific areas such as the kitchen, bathroom, corridors, patios and decks. Separate chapters focus on issues related to AD such as wandering, incontinence and access limitation.

Creating Moments of Joy

Creating Moments of Joy
Author: Jolene Brackey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2003
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781557533661

This book offers many ways to create moments of joy. No matter what the environment or situation is, this book will be a positive tool on a daily basis. This book breaks down the learning process into five sections. Within those five sections are smaller steps. At the end of each step is a place to journal thoughts, ideas, solutions and treasures. With this journal, many moments of joy will be created.

Bathing Without a Battle

Bathing Without a Battle
Author: Ann Louise Barrick PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2008-03-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780826115072

2008 AJN Book of the Year Winner! Like its popular predecessor, the new edition of Bathing Without a Battle presents an individualized, problem-solving approach to bathing and personal care of individuals with dementia. On the basis of extensive original research and clinical experience, the editors have developed strategies and techniques that work in both institution and home settings. Their approach is also appropriate for caregiving activities other than bathing, such as morning and evening care, and for frail elders not suffering from dementia. For this second edition, the authors have included historical material on bathing and substantially updated the section on special concerns, including: Pain Skin care Determining the appropriate level of assistance Transfers The environment An enhanced final section addresses ways to support caregivers by increasing their understanding of the care recipient's needs and their knowledge of interventions to improve care and comfort. It also emphasizes self-care and system-level changes to promote person-directed care. Several chapters include specific insights and wisdom from direct caregivers.

"Where's My Shoes?"

Author: Brenda Avadian
Publisher: 1st Impression Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Alzheimer's disease
ISBN: 9780963275240

Explains the history of the rodeo, important rodeo figures, and different kinds of rodeos.

Mothballs in My Attic

Mothballs in My Attic
Author: Cindy O'Neill
Publisher: MIMA Publications
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Memory in old age
ISBN: 0975316303

Creating Moments of Joy Along the Alzheimer's Journey

Creating Moments of Joy Along the Alzheimer's Journey
Author: Jolene Brackey
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1612494838

The beloved best seller has been revised and expanded for the fifth edition. Jolene Brackey has a vision: that we will soon look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease to focus more of our energies on creating moments of joy. When people have short-term memory loss, their lives are made up of moments. We are not able to create perfectly wonderful days for people with dementia or Alzheimer's, but we can create perfectly wonderful moments, moments that put a smile on their faces and a twinkle in their eyes. Five minutes later, they will not remember what we did or said, but the feeling that we left them with will linger. The new edition of Creating Moments of Joy is filled with more practical advice sprinkled with hope, encouragement, new stories, and generous helpings of humor. In this volume, Brackey reveals that our greatest teacher is having cared for and loved someone with Alzheimer's and that often what we have most to learn about is ourselves.

In Search of the Alzheimer's Wanderer

In Search of the Alzheimer's Wanderer
Author: Mark L. Warner
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781557533999

Every year there are more than 125,000 reports of people with Alzheimer's disease who wander away from their home or care facility and are unable to find their way back. Statistics indicate that of these loved ones who are not found within 24 hours, approximately half do not survive. Mark Warner has devised this workbook as an aid to gathering the information necessary to avert a personal disaster. The book, sturdily bound and easy to use, is complete with the forms that need to be filled out and the pertinent questions that need to be asked to enhance the search for and discovery of a loved one in the event he/she wanders away. With In Search of the Alzheimer's Wanderer, readers will have all the information they need in one place to provide immediately to those who will be looking for their loved one, including the local law enforcement authorities.

The Alzheimer's Solution

The Alzheimer's Solution
Author: Dean Sherzai
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0062666495

A revolutionary, proven program for reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline from award winning neurologists and codirectors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center Over 47 million people are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease worldwide. While all other major diseases are in decline, deaths from Alzheimer’s have increased radically. What you or your loved ones don’t yet know is that 90 percent of Alzheimer’s cases can be prevented. Based on the largest clinical and observational study to date, neurologists and codirectors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, offer in The Alzheimer’s Solution the first comprehensive program for preventing Alzheimer’s disease and improving cognitive function. Alzheimer’s disease isn’t a genetic inevitability, and a diagnosis does not need to come with a death sentence. Ninety percent of grandparents, parents, husbands, and wives can be spared. Ninety percent of us can avoid ever getting Alzheimer’s, and for the 10 percent with strong genetic risk for cognitive decline, the disease can be delayed by ten to fifteen years. This isn’t an estimate or wishful thinking; it’s a percentage based on rigorous science and the remarkable results the Sherzais have seen firsthand in their clinic. This much-needed revolutionary book reveals how the brain is a living universe, directly influenced by nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep, and engagement. In other words: what you feed it, how you treat it, when you challenge it, and the ways in which you allow it to rest. These factors are the pillars of the groundbreaking program you’ll find in these pages, which features a personalized assessment for evaluating risk, a five-part program for prevention and symptom-reversal, and day-by-day guides for optimizing cognitive function. You can prevent Alzheimer’s disease from affecting you, your family, friends, and loved ones. Even with a diagnosis, you can reverse cognitive decline and add vibrant years to your life. The future of your brain is finally within your control.