Dementia Home Care - A Comprehensive Guide

 

Dementia Home Care

By Tracy Cram Perkins

This book is going to help a lot of people care for people who are dear to them. Here is a comprehensive guide from a caregiver who has lived the experience and accumulated tremendous advice for caring for someone with dementia. Just as valuable is her advice to help you home caretakers too. You need to find out how to help take care of yourself when your world has changed. From the time dementia is diagnosed, your loved one and you are on a journey, a unique one. This is the guide book with the help you're looking for, showing where you're headed and so many helpful tips for preserving your humor, stamina, and emotional connections along the way.

Dementia Home Care is well organized for reading from beginning to end, and it's also a handy reference where you can quickly access information as you need it on specific topics. As you see the breadth of the subjects, you'll be impressed. From recogizing the first symptoms and how to cope with the following stages, to preparing the living environment, to personal care, for important recipes, regarding long term care, including the end of the journey, and so much more. Advice is clever, creative, innovative, and outlined in a practical way. So many tips and chapters cover information you may not even realize can lessen your load.

The author shares from her personal experience, and her writing also includes notes of citations from formal professionals, reflecting her impressive research. The chapters show you what can be helpful for you, and there's an extensive appendix of resources from A to Z and how to access those when you need to. This book offers the life hacks of home care to add some ease to your daily to-do's. It's amazing to find out that raising your awareness to situations can lead to doable solutions that can ease life for caregiver and also the one they care for. And very important to always remember a good laugh a day soothes tension away. An underlying good will basis of humor laces the text of this important resource book.

Author Tracy Cram Perkins's twelve years of caregiving for her parents with dementia and an uncle with mild dementia created the base for this book. Caring for her family, she learned the depression, anxiety, and guilt that comes with dementia care. You can find out more, and see news about Tracy's upcoming books as well by going to her website tracycramperkins.com.