ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: Home Care Planning and Management

Are you caring for someone with the Alzheimer's disease? Or you may want to know the facts? There has been a great number of occurrences of this disease among older adults. Their caregivers struggle the most. Cure and treatment is a mystery. Symptoms are treated but not cured. Research continues to find ways to battle this disease. It has been misunderstood by most of us. For the meantime, home care is an option. Though it seems difficult to manage the disease at home, a deeper meaning of compassion and care coexists there. This book aims to provide the important facts about the Alzheimer's disease and the management of it's symptoms in a home care setting. The chapters in this book are : Chapter 1 — Defining and Classifying Alzheimer’s Disease Chapter 2 — Possible Causes and the Mechanism of Alzheimer’s Disease Chapter 3 — Stages and Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease Chapter 4 — Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease Chapter 5 — Managing the Safety of a Person with Alzheimer’s Disease Chapter 6 — Managing the Care of Bodily Symptoms through Prescribed Medications Chapter 7 — Managing and Intervening the Behavioral Symptoms Chapter 8 — Effectively Communicating to a Person with the Alzheimer’s Disease Chapter 9 — Managing the Activities of Daily Living Chapter 10 — Basic Home Care Management