Dementia | Alzheimer’s Care
A diagnosis of dementia is a difficult and shocking news to accept. Dementia is a collection of symptoms caused by various disease affecting the brain. Cognitive functioning in multiple areas decline progressively. In addition to impaired memory, it affects the individual’s ability to communicate, carry out purposeful movement, recognize common objects and familiar people, and judgement and reasoning.
It is difficult to see your loved one lose their memory, sense of time, and place. Caring for your loved one can get difficult over time and it can become overwhelming. Care can vary and get progressively difficult over time. At the beginning, short-term memory deterioration can occur where confusion can happen in normal situations. This can progress to getting lost in familiar surroundings such as a mall. Your loved one who was once strong and independent now needs assistance with walking, drinking, eating, and toilet use. This can become difficult for you to manage the care 24 hours a day. Caring for a loved one with dementia can have a negative impact on your physical, psychological, and social life. Continuity Nursing Care can alleviate the burden by assisting you to care for your loved one.
Continuity Nursing Care believes in knowing the person beyond their symptoms, recognize their retained abilities, influence the social and physical environment to meet the clients’ unique needs and relate effectively to the client in ways that enable the client to feel supported, valued and confident.
Let Continuity Nursing Care work with you and your loved one and by enhancing life (ADLs & IADLs), stabilization of cognition, elimination of pain, prevention or elimination of behaviours that adversely affect functioning, enhancement of emotional well-being, reduce caregiver stress, and maintain personal health to enhance quality of life for you and your family.