Alzheimer's disease:aspects of home care
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
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If you are a caretaker for someone who has Alzheimer's disease, there are some things you want to do to keep safe home for them to live in. One of the objectives of a carer is to keep your family members or patients at home as long as you can. There are several things you can do to the home as safe as possible:
• improve the lighting in the home. These include corridors, stairs and bathrooms. Try to have the same lighting everywhere because changes in light levels can be confusing for some patients.
• Insert carpets, with a different color than the floor or carpet in front stairs and doors, so that the patient has an easier time identifying where they are.
• Make sure that patients take their medicines while you watch. You want to make sure that they are not and there is no dose.
• Close all areas, a danger to the patient. You can use the child safety latches and locks to make many areas inaccessible, like knife drawers in the kitchen.
• Make sure that the food in the refrigerator is fresh and not spoiled. People with Alzheimer's disease is often eat what they find, regardless of taste or the state of food.
• Limit the use of some equipment in the budget, as the stove / oven, toaster, and knives.
• Pay attention to equipment, with an automatic shutdown device. This can prevent fires and burns.
• Do you have a list of telephone numbers posted in each telephone. This includes telephone numbers for police, fire fighters, doctors, poison, and family members.
• Make sure that smoke detectors are working correctly.
• Keep fire extinguishers throughout the home.
• Register with the safe return Program. This program helps people who have Alzheimer's disease at home make it safe when they walk and lost.
Is someone who has Alzheimer's disease requires supervision, sometimes constant. This means that you need to make things as easy on himself, as you can so that you can not spend too much time do you think your patients away from things that can harm them. If you have a house that is full of safety features that you know that your patient is to be safe.
This allows you to focus on other aspects of home care, such as care of your patients emotions and ensure that they are still some of the activities they enjoy doing.
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