Question

what is an example a caregiver for elederly patients with dementia might go through. can you be specific

Answer 1

Dementia is a collection of symptoms characterized by memory loss, cognitive impairment, personality changes occurs as a result of neurodegenerative diseases or any trauma.

Dementia leads to cognitive,functional and emotional disturbances. The people often find difficult to meet their activity of daily living like eating, dressing up, toiletting. Even the disease makes the individual to forget their loved one.

Caregivers of dementia plays challenging role as they have to meet the entire domain of the individual. The caregiver often endup with health problems as they are taking care of all basic needs of the patient with dementia meanwhile they don't have time to care of their ownhealth. Most ofthe caregivers feel depressed by seeing their loved ones forgetting them. Depression, hoplessness, burnout are the common issues faced by the caregivers of the dementia client.

By following tactics like doing relaxation exercises, making communication clearly and consice , using open ended questions, getting help from support group helps the caregiver to render effective care.