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How To Solve Problems Associated Alongside Mood, Cooperation Too Behavior


How to Solve Problems Associated With Mood How to Solve Problems Associated With Mood, Cooperation together with Behavior

Ask yourself is the work a upshot of dementia, or is it a work of the underlying personality that existed earlier a diagnosis of Alzheimer's?



yesteryear Bob DeMarco


Many of the emails I have come upwards from members of the Alzheimer's community worldwide who are looking for a solutions to a problem.


The most mutual of course of written report is repetitive questions, together with therefore to problems similar the inability to larn a individual living alongside dementia to accept a shower, or to take their medication.

The listing of mutual problems nosotros human face upwards equally caregivers autumn loosely into the categories of mood, cooperation, together with behavior.

First, enquire yourself is the work a upshot of dementia, or is it a work of the underlying personality that existed earlier a diagnosis of Alzheimer's or some other type of dementia?

Personality type tin flame brand a difference. For example, a individual who was naturally a "worrywart" mightiness survive harder to bargain alongside because their marking of anxiety is probable to survive exacerbated yesteryear dementia.

Another event mightiness survive individual who likes to survive in control. Alzheimer's does lessen the commutation powerfulness to survive inwards control. Nevertheless, the individual mightiness notwithstanding withdraw hold this need.


Unresolved issues inwards relationships tin flame also brand the caregiving attempt to a greater extent than difficult.

In club to bargain alongside difficulties of mood, cooperation, together with behavior, I normally advise that the caregiver larn a notebook together with start keeping rail of the work or problems.


For example,
  • When is the work occurring? At the same fourth dimension of day. For example, inwards the morning, belatedly afternoon, sundown, bedtime.
  • With whom is the work occurring? With a you, spouse, child, hired caregiver or nurse, or inwards a special location inside or exterior the home?
  • Where is the work occurring? Same location every time, dissimilar location, all over the place?
  • In what context did the work accept place? In other words what was happening earlier the work occurred? 
  • Were you lot gone for a while together with therefore the work occurred? 
  • Did you lot come upwards up to the individual living alongside dementia together with abruptly enquire them to create something?
  • Does it hap when you lot are trying to explain something inwards dandy detail, together with yesteryear using a lot of words?
  • Why did it happen? Can you lot respond this question? 
If you lot start taking notes together with examining each province of affairs you lot volition withdraw hold a ameliorate withdraw chances of solving a work or changing the behavior.


Here is a real uncomplicated example.

I could non larn Dotty to accept a shower.


Of course, similar most beginner caregivers when Dotty would nation no, or I don't demand a shower, or I already took my shower today, I would examine to explicate to her why she needed a shower.

I would offering a long listing of practiced reasons why she would savour a shower. Or, try to explain that she had non taken the shower. I tried this fifty-fifty though Dotty only told me she believed she had taken a shower. Explaining doesn't function good when a individual alongside dementia says No.

Once I started analyzing our twenty-four hours together with taking notes, I concluded I was non going to survive able to larn Dotty to accept her shower inwards the morn no thing how hard I tried.

After a while, I decided I would function the shower into our daily routine around 3-4 PM inwards the afternoon.

By the afternoon, I had Dotty calmed downwardly together with into a laid routine (pattern). For example, I had been moving her around our home, given her breakfast together with lunch, together with gotten her to pee several times.

Before I brought upwards the shower Dotty would normally survive listening to music, together with if things were going good she would sing. This gave me a withdraw chances to interact alongside her -- speak alongside her.

When the fourth dimension for the shower would come, I would talk to her, therefore walk upwards to her together with stick my mitt out. If all was working good Dotty would ask, where are nosotros going? I would respond upwards forepart to larn a snack. And away nosotros would go.

On the way, I would say, hey, subsequently nosotros withdraw hold our snack lets larn out. She would say, where are nosotros going? I would respond to withdraw hold some fun. She of course of written report would say, oh sure.

Once nosotros were inwards the correct position I would say, hey, lets accept a pee together with a shower, position on our cloths together with larn create to larn out.

By this fourth dimension I had her inwards full motion, had her attention, together with had engaged  in several acts where she cooperated. Like taking my mitt when the entire interaction started.

Start looking at each situation. Take some notes. Try to larn real practiced agreement of what is going on at the fourth dimension of the problem, together with earlier the work is occurring.

When you lot come across a recurring problem, try to alter the dynamic. For example, brand certain the individual living alongside dementia is fully engaged together with doing something earlier a work that occurs at the same fourth dimension each day.

Don't survive afraid to alter it up. Try things at times of twenty-four hours that function better.

Most important. Don't walk upwards to a dementia patient from out of no where together with start bespeak them to create something.

Get the conversation going first, brand certain you lot smile together with that they smiling back, examine getting them to cooperate, together with therefore larn for the large move.

Little acts of cooperation create upwards over time. Cooperation leads to trust. Trust leads to success.


About Bob DeMarco

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