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Thursday, October 13, 20118 Tips for Coping with Elderly Parents and Advanced Dementia
From Caregiver Support:
A parent's physical decline or loss of memory due to dementia or Alzheimer's can cause anxiety, depression or just a niggling feeling of malaise inside.
A great way for coping with the stress of a parent’s declining health due to dementia is to acknowledge the anxiety, depression, or the general feeling of unease felt. Then you can decide how best to manage these feelings and live through them as they arise. Realizing that a parent can no longer look after themselves alone, or that they no longer know who you are, can cause stress of varying degrees. Nevertheless, the challenge is to persist with acknowledging those moments of anxiety first, and then designing and implementing a plan when you feel anxiety or stress levels increase. All of us do better when we have put some thought into how to respond to circumstances that are upsetting. Feeling Stressed about an Elderly Parent Suffering from Dementia An elderly parent’s deteriorating dementia may prompt an adult child to experience anxiety or stress and feel any of the following:
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