Dementia Home Care: How to Prepare Before, During, and After

Dementia caregivers cope with repetitive questions, mood swings, lost personal space, and live with exhaustion, frustration, and anger. You may not know how to prepare.
 
Dementia Home Care covers:

• Life hacks like camouflaging doors to prevent wandering, or "mom" bags for life's little emergencies and what to stock in it for road trips
• Distraction Techniques--Nursery Rhymes, warm blankets, food
• Hoarding--Thinning "collections" during sleep periods, removing trash completely from premises, canceling subscriptions, blocking shopping channels
• Information needed by emergency medical personnel--what is needed on a medication list, and list of physical ailments
• Working with your Pharmacist--drug interaction checks
• Memory Aids--memory boards, memory books, flash cards
• Powers of Attorney--Power of Attorney Health Care, Durable Power of Attorney
• Death--Contacting the Credit Bureaus to add a Death Watch when a family member dies, reporting a death to Social Security, obtaining death certificates
• Distinguishing the difference between a hallucination and delusion
• The empty-nester experience after the loss of a loved one--to a nursing facility or to death

Tracy Cram Perkins's twelve-plus years of experience caregiving for two parents with dementia provided the nucleus of Dementia Home Care.
 
This guide grew from the questions presented by family members and friends overwhelmed by the caregiving challenges with their family member(s) or friends and the frustration of not being able to find the caregiver hands-on answers in one book.
Tracy and her husband reside on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula.