Adult children get busy with their own lives, and many live quite a distance from their aging parents. If you are a “long-distance child,” the holiday season may present your only chance to detect changes in your parents’ health, their environment and their overall attitude toward life. What should you watch for that could help you decide if you need to suggest to your parents that they get some help?
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Sisters and brothers are finding new ways to circumvent old conflicts as they take on one of the toughest roles intheir lives: caregiver. When Rene Talavera’s father, Jesus Talavera, 69, was hospitalized for kidney and heart failure last fall, the 45-year-old Chicago resident and his four siblings were catapulted into an uncomfortable new phase of life: caregiving.
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A new University of Iowa study offers some good news for caregivers and loved ones of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. Patients might forget a joke or a meaningful conversation – but even so, the warm feelings associated with the experience can stick around and boost their mood.
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When we use positive language, this one seemingly simple change from negative to positive, can change everything in our lives. The use of positive language changes a parent or teacher from being a nag, or a scold into a mentor, a coach. The expected results are the same; we expect children to try and be wise, to walk in the house, to be good people. With positive language, we demonstrate that we believe that children can achieve these results.
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A group of Utah State University researchers and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and Boston University have demonstrated that the rate of clinical progression of dementia may be slowed by a close relationship with one’s caregiver. The findings will be published in the September 2009 issue of “The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences” by Oxford Journals The research study “Caregiver Recipient Closeness and Symptom Progression in Alzheimer Disease. The Cache County Dementia Progression Study,” started in 2002 and monitored 167 participants with Alzheimer’s disease for three years. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, measured the cognitive and functional status of the participants and the caregiver-reported relationship of the participants. It was found that higher levels of closeness to ones caregiver…
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Here is a great article from agingcare.com for anyone who has a loved one who may be suffering with Alzheimer’s. If you have questions, or need help for a senior loved one in the area, visit us at http://mikeandmarycare.com.
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