The person who has dementia
Where do you go from here?
2. Getting medical help for the person who has dementia
Evaluation of the person with a suspected dementia
Finding someone to do an evaluation
The medical treatment and management of dementia
The geriatric care manager
3. Characteristic behavioral symptoms in people who have dementia
The brain, behavior, and personality : why people who have dementia do the things they do
Caregiving: some general suggestions
Overreacting, or catastrophic reactions
Problems with speech and communication
Problems the person who has dementia experiences in making himself understood
Problems the person who has dementia experiences in understanding others
Symptoms that are better sometimes and worse at other times
4. Problems in independent living
Mild cognitive impairment
Managing the early stages of dementia
When a person must give up a job
When a person can no longer manage money
When a person can no longer drive safely
When a person can no longer live alone
When you suspect that someone living alone is developing dementia
Moving to a new residence
5. Problems arising in daily care
Highways and parking lots
When to consider tube feeding
Incontinence (wetting or soiling)
Problems with walking and balance; Falling
Becoming chairbound or bedfast
Changes you can make at home
Should environments be cluttered or bare?
If the ill person must enter the hospital
Seizures, fits, or convulsions
Jerking movements (myoclonus)
The death of the person who has dementia
Hospice and palliative care
Dying in the hospital or nursing home
When should treatment end?
What kind of care can be given at the end of life?
7. Managing the behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia
The six R's of behavior management
The management of wandering
Sleep disturbances and night wandering
Worsening in the evening ("Sundowning")
Losing, hoarding, or hiding things
Rummaging in drawers and closets
Inappropriate sexual behavior
Clinging or persistently following you around ("Shadowing")
Forgetting telephone calls
Stubbornness and uncooperativeness
When the person who has dementia insults the sitter
Using medication to manage behavior
8. Symptoms associated with mood change and suspiciousness
Anxiety, nervousness, and restlessness
False ideas, suspiciousness, paranoia, and hallucinations
Failure to recognize people or things (agnosia)
"My mother is coming for me"
Delusions and hallucinations
9. Special arrangements if you become ill
In the event of your death.
Help from friends and neighbors
Finding information and services
Having someone come into your home
Short-stay residential care
Planning in advance for home care, day care, and respite care
When the person who has dementia rejects the care
Your own feelings about getting respite for yourself
Should respite programs mix people who have different problems?
Determining the quality of services
Research and demonstration programs
11. You and the person who has dementia
Understanding family conflicts
Division of responsibility
Coping with role changes and family conflict
When you live out of town
When you are not the primary caregiver, what can you do to help?
12. How caring for a person who has dementia affects you
Isolation and feeling alone
Being hopeful and being realistic
Mistreating the person who has dementia
If your spouse has dementia
If your impaired parent lives with you
When the person you have cared for dies
Find additional help if you need it
Recognize the warning signs
Joining with other families : the Alzheimer's Association
14. For children and teenagers
15. Financial and legal issues
Your financial assessment
Where to look for the forgetful person's resources
16. Long-term care arrangements
Types of living arrangements
Moving with the person who has dementia
Finding a long-term care setting outside the home
Guidelines for selecting a long-term care facility
Moving a person to a residential care facility
When problems occur in the nursing home or other residential care facility
Sexual issues in nursing homes or other care facilities
17. Preventing and delaying cognitive decline
Usual age-associated changes
Risk factors identify potential targets and possible approaches for decreasing the risk of dementia
Social and intellectual activity
18. Brain disorders and the causes of dementia
Mild cognitive impairment
Alcohol Use Disorder Associated Dementia
Amnestic (Korsakoff) Syndrome
Cortico-basal Ganglionic Degeneration
The frontotemporal dementias
Parkinson Disease Associated Dementia
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Traumatic brain injury (TBI or head trauma)
Young or early onset dementia
Stroke and other localized brain injury
Transient ischemic attack
Research in vascular dementia and stroke
Research in Alzheimer Disease
Structural changes in the brain
Abnormal proteins within brain cells
Transplants of brain tissue
Neuropsychological testing
Effect of acute illness on dementia
Research into the delivery of services
