Senior Home Care USA

 I have heard this statement so many times, My Mother doesn’t have Alzheimer’s BUT Ask yourself these questions can your mother describe what happened yesterday? Can she remember what she had for breakfast?  Most of the time the answers are no. Predicted to be the epidemic of the twenty-first century, Alzheimer’s is a ticking time [...]

Technology in shoes, would you use this devise for your parents? GPS enabled shoes for people with Alzheimer’s or dementia. The shoes are also equipped with a geo-fencing capability that can notify caregivers when a person has gone outside of a designated area. The cost is around $300.00 a pair. Mobile monitoring systems have become [...]

You’re busy working raising a family, checking off all those things on your lists.  You have heard other women talking about the sandwich generation. You are taking care of your family and your parents. You give them a call to chat and see how things are going. No answer, no biggie you just think I’ll [...]

In a nutshell, dementia is a symptom, and AD is the cause of the symptom. When someone is told they have dementia, it means that they have significant memory problems as well as other cognitive difficulties, and that these problems are severe enough to get in the way of daily living….. Too often, patients and [...]

There is a great deal of confusion, even in the medical community, about memory loss and various types of dementia. Is it Alzheimer’s or Dementia? Dementia is a general term used to describe many different diseases. Dementia is the syndrome of symptoms such as memory loss and decreasing ability to handle the daily functions of [...]

Probably the first and most important question that comes up about loss of memory is knowing when the memory loss is normal. It’s normal to be concerned about slipping into some form of dementia, like Alzheimer’s It helps to understand the difference between these different terms. Memory loss is a normal loss of brain cells [...]