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Personalized Advice for Communicating Effectively with Seniors
Communicating Effectively with Seniors:
Sometimes it can be very hard to communicate effectively with seniors. Half of the time people find it very hard to decipher what they say, and the other half of their time is spent in patiently explaining to senior people what heir point of view is. Frustrating it may be though, the ...
Antipsychotic Drugs for Paranoia in Dementia
Paranoia in Dementia
Dementia is a term used for diseases and conditionscaused by a decline in memory, language and thinking skills affecting a person’s ability to carry out day-to-day activities. The most common cause of Dementia is Alzheimer’s. Dementia patients can often be found suffering from undesirable emotions such as fear, anger and jealousy. This sort ...
Parkinson’s Dementia Aggression
Parkinson’s Dementia Aggression is the aggression stemming from Parkinson’s disease Dementia that impairs thought processes, mental functions, and memory. Though Parkinson’s Disease is known to be a progressive disease of the nervous system that affects a person’s mobility and ability to carry out day-to-day activities, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia can result in severe cognitive decline. PD ...
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Are you a caregiver for seniors? Do you feel that a few individuals whom you look after often become moody and melancholy during the winter? Don’t let this go unnoticed, they might be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD.
What is seasonal affective disorder?
Seasonal affective disorder is a form of depression that occurs at the ...
Complete Guide to Home Health Care in Houston
Home Health Care in Houston
Home health care, as the name suggests is providing home care to the elderly or injured. The range of services offered is very broad, and varies for every individual. If you’ve just begun looking for a senior home health care plan for your loved ones, or want to request at home ...
Dementia Related Hygiene Problems and How To Handle
What is Dementia?
Dementia is one of the cruelest syndromes that can afflict seniors. One should call it a syndrome and not a disease because symptoms of dementia are omnipresent in more than one disease. Dementia causes progressive memory loss as well as affecting a person’s ability in language, problem solving and rational thinking. There are ...
Ambassadors Caregivers is actively monitoring developments and guidance on novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Ambassadors Caregivers is actively monitoring developments and guidance around the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Currently, we are conducting business as usual though we’ve added additional safety precautions which we’ve outlined below. Additionally, we continue to prepare diligently for all other precautionary measures as needed.
Microscopic view of Coronavirus, a pathogen that attacks the ...
Ethical Issues on Elder Abuse
Ethical Issues on Elder Abuse with Loved Ones
Elders being abused is nothing new. As a matter of fact, it has become a huge concern for everyone. As age makes a person slow, weak and helpless, he/she becomes more prone or vulnerable to all sorts of elder abuse. This is not only about physical abuse, but ...
Mental Retardation and Therapies to Prevent
What is Mental Retardation?
Mental retardation is a medical condition in which loved ones go through cognitive decline ranging from borderline to mild to moderate and eventually in extreme cases, severe and then profound. Such is the state of their mental condition that they are unable to function properly and remember events ranging from past to ...
How to Care for Adults with Special Needs
Caring for disabled seniors or seniors with special needs is a double whammy of sorts. The reason being, first, they are disabled. Second, age is not on their side anymore. Professional caregivers have to be extra careful while tending care for adults with special needs, as they have to be handled delicately else they might ...