A lot of people have a flawed vision of in-home caregivers, especially those who provide dementia care, as are essentially wards enforcing home arrests on their patients. He is supported by visual media, where such people are essentially bad or at least mean. However, the reality is that the kind of people who commit themselves to care for dementia or Alzheimer's are a special breed.
You never want a fresh-faced tenderfoot to take care of your old parents - they don't understand what they're doing. But if you can already find a half-experienced nurse who has previously cared for dementia for a long time, then you can be sure that you have found an angel. Alzheimer's care is one of the most difficult and grueling things you can ask another human being to do; If someone comes back after trying once, it is because they love their patients.
It goes without saying that an in-home caregiver is the best option for Alzheimer's care. Nursing homes are terrifying places that treat their patients as burdens that they have left the most anesthetic and ignored, and taking care of them is punishable by both of you.
The amazing thing about in-home care is that, if you leave it to the experts, it never gets in the way. Like an old-school English maid, the home caretaker is present in the background of cooking, cleaning, and opening jars of pickles. Even patients who need Alzheimer's care still have the things they love to do - it can be crossword puzzles, soap operas or Wii bowling, but everyone can do those things Gets the opportunity to do what they like best. An in-home caregiver allows them to silently handle the details (and their dementia care) in the background.
Even if they decide they want to participate, a good caretaker will happily help a little by drying utensils or sweeping the bathroom. If work gets done quickly, he can join your old parents for just one round of Wii Bowling!
To get a better understanding of the main differences between home care and a nursing home, imagine these two scenarios. First, you are woken up by an alarm clock, and you have to get dressed and go to the cafeteria because breakfast stops at 10 in the morning and does not start eating until noon. Then you have to go back to your room and do something because by noon the yard is off-limits - but when the afternoon comes, someone urges you to go out for your health. Bullets too. Lots of pills.
In another, you wake up at bedtime, and you inform your caretaker what you want for breakfast. You go out and sit on the swing on your porch when she cooks, eat food in bed while you are struggling with danger, and then decide to take a nap. There are fewer pills because you are under less stress and the caregiver at home does not particularly care to keep you calm and calm.
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