How Does Telehealth Enhance Dementia Care for Seniors at Adult Day Centers?
Telehealth can be a crucial piece in caring for seniors with dementia. Here’s how it helps.
Is There a Difference Between Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease?
Memory Care in Ventura CA: There are differences between Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, but both can benefit from memory care.
Is Memory Care Right for Your Family Member?
Memory Care in Oxnard CA: Memory care is a newer type of care that can offer some big solutions for your family.
How To Cope With Sleeplessness and Wandering for Seniors with Dementia
If your loved one has dementia, he or she may have difficulty sleeping at night. They might be prone to wandering around the house while you or your family members are asleep, and this can cause concern for many reasons. Your loved one may be putting themselves at risk for a fall or another injury […]
Different Forms of Dementia: What Type Is Affecting Your Loved One?
Dementia and Alzheimer’s have become much more prevalent in older adults within the past decade, and awareness about dementia is slowly but surely growing. While Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia (and one of the main focuses in the fight to find a treatment for dementia), many people cannot distinguish the difference between […]
Aggression in Dementia Individuals: Why It Happens and How to Cope
Once a month, Oxnard Family Circle ADHC has an Alzheimer’s Cafe group for caregivers who are taking care of dementia individuals. I attended the group recently and sat next to a man who is providing care for his wife, who has Alzheimer’s. The man told me that he had attended the Alzheimer’s Cafe group in […]
Breakthrough for an Alzheimer’s Patient Gives Others A Reason To Persevere
As of this year, it is estimated that as many as 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. As our population ages, the disease impacts a larger percentage of Americans. The number of people age 65 and older will more than double between 2010 and 2050 to 88.5 million or 20 percent of the population. In addition, […]
Stories From Oxnard Family Circle
At Oxnard Family Circle, our goal is to treat our participants like we would our own family: with compassion and respect, and humor when we are able to. We have many participants who have been attending our program for a substantial amount of time, and our employees are quick to bond with the people they […]
Memory Games Can Help Improve Symptoms in Dementia and Alzheimer’s Patients
Dementia is a disease that gradually affects areas of short-term and long term memory loss in adults that are typically 65 or over. While dementia can be inevitable in many older individuals, there are many different strategies that can be applied that both reduce the rate at which the memory loss occurs, and helps retain […]
Tips For Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
Caregiving for a person with dementia is hardly ever easy. Watching dementia progress in your loved one can often be an extremely sad and painful experience, and can often leave the caregiver feeling helpless. However, there are many approaches that caregivers can utilize to help make providing care to their loved ones more manageable.
