Current Events > I have taken care of people with dementia diseases for 9 years. Ask me anything.

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I can give you advice if you want.

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Do you sometimes like to try out different accents on them?

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What's the difference between dementia and alzhimers?

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

Might you know by proxy some best ways to avoid it yourself?

Depends on which disease. For Alzheimers, there really isn't anything as far as I know, but being curious and learning as much as possible will make your dementia life easier becasue the more you "use the brain" the more connecetions your synapses make, making the illness a bit more bearable, but eventually you'll end up the same as anyone.

Vascular dementia is more preventable since it's caused by changes in the blood vessels in the brain, like strokes and other vascular diseases.

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Have you seen or worked with any music therapists?

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eston posted...

Do you sometimes like to try out different accents on them?

No, but I've done diffferent approaches to same scenarios several times, because that's how we can treat them, most of the time you fail the first many times before you find the best approach.

Kobe Bryant posted...

What's the difference between dementia and alzhimers?

Alzheimers is a dementia disease. Dementia is just a term for people who can have a load of different dementia diseases, like Alzheimers, which is one of the most common ones.

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Beefbud posted...

Have you seen or worked with any music therapists?

Not really, but I have used music and singing in my work to make the work much easier.

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How would you feel if you had a girlfriend and she shared nudes to a bunch of randos on the Internet? And she ain't even getting paid for it.

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Do you think you'll get it when you get older, TC?
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Veggeta X posted...

How would you feel if you had a girlfriend and she shared nudes to a bunch of randos on the Internet? And she ain't even getting paid for it.

I will never have a GF so the question does not apply.

Slayer_22 posted...

Do you think you'll get it when you get older, TC?

I dunno, the only dementia in my family is is my grandmother on my dad's side had Alzheimers. If not that, I could get vascular dementia etc if I'm not careful with my health, but I've been better with my health, I drink way less and just a month ago my diabetes was downgraded to pre-diabetes, and I'm also losing weight so I'm trying to be healthy.

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FF_Redux posted...

I will never have a GF so the question does not apply.

Aight what if you had a S/O and they shared their nudes to a bunch of randos on the Internet and they ain't even get paid for it.

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i fear my mother is developing it
good on you TC for doing that work....its terribly difficult

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My neighbor has dementia and his wife keeps yelling at him despite his age and condition. Should I snitch on her?

Veggeta X posted...

Aight what if you had a S/O and they shared their nudes to a bunch of randos on the Internet and they ain't even get paid for it.

That's cool, I don't care.

@Cobalt_Wasps posted...

i fear my mother is developing it
good on you TC for doing that work....its terribly difficult

What signs are you seeing, and have she got checked out on that?


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My grandma has dementia though shes currently in hospice. Before that my mom would try to care for her overnight these last few weeks and she said it was horrible. My grandma would wake up at all hours screaming at random stuff or having conversations with herself. How would you recommend a care giver like my mom handle that? This is more hypothetical now since its too late to do much.

FF_Redux posted...

That's cool, I don't care.

That's very Peak CEman logic, bro.

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My old friend from college told me that due to excessive drug use he has dementia now. What drugs do you think he was doing?

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What kind of setting do you work in?

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cousinvini posted...

My neighbor has dementia and his wife keeps yelling at him despite his age and condition. Should I snitch on her?

Snitch to who? It's a condition that's usually really hard for the people around the person affected, it's very hard for the person affected in the beggning but once they start to have no insight in their disease it usually gets easier on them, but even worse for the family and friends.

The wife probably needs a lot of support and help honestly, it's very hard and devastating for everyone in that situation.

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Cleo_II posted...

My grandma has dementia though shes currently in hospice. Before that my mom would try to care for her overnight these last few weeks and she said it was horrible. My grandma would wake up at all hours screaming at random stuff or having conversations with herself. How would you recommend a care giver like my mom handle that? This is more hypothetical now since its too late to do much.

The core thought is to make the person with dementia to feel secure and safe in their reality, which contradicts how you should treat people with psychosis (where you shouldn't encourage their delusions), and you gotta think outside the box, if they do something strange, and it doesn't hurt them or anyone else but they still feel good about it, let them, which can be very hard for the people close to them to accept. Sometimes you can't really do anything about it, it's a very complicated, you gotta asses each person on their core individial level.

My recomendation overall is that next of kin should not become a caregiver, they should be the role the had, wife, husband, siblin, child etc, but have an outside party to help them.

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Politics posted...

My old friend from college told me that due to excessive drug use he has dementia now. What drugs do you think he was doing?

I don't know, but anything that can mess up the brain, even alcohol has it's own diagnoses, alcohol dementia.

yunalenne10 posted...

What kind of setting do you work in?

I help people in their own homes who have dementia diseaes, no retirement home or something like that, it's their apparments, houses etc.

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FF_Redux posted...

The core thought is to make the person with dementia to feel secure and safe in their reality, which contradicts how you should treat people with psychosis (where you shouldn't encourage their delusions), and you gotta think outside the box, if they do something strange, and it doesn't hurt them or anyone else but they still feel good about it, let them, which can be very hard for the people close to them to accept. Sometimes you can't really do anything about it, it's a very complicated, you gotta asses each person on their core individial level.

My recomendation overall is that next of kin should not become a caregiver, they should be the role the had, wife, husband, siblin, child etc, but have an outside party to help them.

Thank you. They actually had hired 2 other caregivers as well. But they were there for the daytime. So my mom would care for her at night. But she barely slept at all. It was so hard for her. Dementia is a bitch