CARING FOR A LOVED ONE WITH DEMENTIA

Caring for a Loved One with Dementia

Caring for a Loved One with Dementia

Question 1: Identify a minimum of five (5) issues that are most important for caregivers to understand and address regarding the behavior of people with dementia.

Dementia is currently defined as 'a syndrome consisting of progressive impairment in both memory and at least one of the following cognitive deficits: aphasia, apraxia, agnosia or disturbance in executive abilities, sufficient to interfere with social or occupational functioning, in the absence of delirium or major non-organic psychiatric disorders' (Froehlich, 2001). This narrow definition is ...