Saturday, October 16, 2010

About Alzheimer's Disease: Caregiver Stress and Help With Coping

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From Andrew Rosenzweig, MD, your Guide to Alzheimer's Disease
This week's newsletter addresses caregiver stress in Alzheimer's disease and how to better cope. Unfortunately the stress associated with being an Alzheimer's caregiver is like no other: how can one possibly manage wandering, agitation, paranoia, and progressive loss of function on their own?

Impact of Caregiver Stress on Health and Memory
Signs of caregiver stress include social withdrawal, anxiety, depression, exhaustion, and even anger at the person with dementia. Remarkably, one study found that the caregiving spouse had a six fold increase in dementia risk compared with subjects whose spouses did not have dementia.... Read more

Coping With Your Loved One's Disease
Learn as much as you can about Alzheimer's disease. Although you may be reluctant to do so because you don't want to think about it, you'll thank yourself down the road because you'll be ready to handle the many challenges associated with Alzheimer's.... Read more

Coping with the Grief of Your Loved One's Diagnosis
Alzheimer's disease is a particularly difficult disease to cope with, in part because of the sadness in seeing your loved one's mind deteriorate. This deterioration of the mind is why some people fear an Alzheimer's diagnosis even more than a cancer diagnosis....Read more

Is Alzheimer's Disease the New "Buzz Word?"
In a comment to a recent blog post, Shaye observed that based on her parents' experiences she thinks Alzheimer's disease is the new "buzz word." Specifically, she implies that once a person receives an Alzheimer's diagnosis "not enough tests are done to complete exclude other diseases/causes." I thought this was quite a provocative comment, considering that most of us still view Alzheimer's disease as underdiagnosed and underrecognized...Read more

 


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