Dementia

Caregiving Skills For Dementia (Lippincott’s Nursing Center)

San Jose Care Resource Guide:  This is a very rich article from the Lipingcott’s Nursing Center on dementia in its various forms. Essentially a class  for nurses , but family caregivers will benefit immensely from the information. Click Here for link

San Jose Care Resource Guide: Here are some of the  topics

• COMMON TYPES OF DEMENTIA
•  NURSING CARE MODELS (Techniques for interaction with a person afflicted with Dementia)
• INTERVENTIONS ( What can be done to improve the situation)
  • Illustrative examples of cases and what was done
  • Responses to specific dementia issues such as
    •  agitation
    • withdrwal
    • apathy

One of the best article we have seen in a long time!

Dementia Caregiving: Poor Skills=Frustration + Depression!

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B-Complex Vitamins May Help Slow Progression of Dementia (ScienceDaily)

Care Resource Guide:

Quoting the ScienceDaily Post:

“….Large doses of B-complex vitamins could reduce the rate of brain shrinkage by half in elderly people with memory problems and slow the progression of dementia..”

Before you rush to the supplement shop, you should know that the astudy is talking about large doses:  “… injections of B-complex vitamins are more effective than oral supplements….”  Article does not say how large are the doses..

Care Resource Guide: However another similar article also in sciencedaily is talking tablets of B’s: 

Quoting: “..The team found that on average the brains of those taking the folic acid, vitamin B₆ and B₁₂ treatment shrank at a rate of 0.76% a year, while those in the placebo group had a mean brain shrinkage rate of 1.08%…”

To be followed….

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