At CaringKind, our mission is not just about providing care, but about providing support, understanding, and empowerment for those affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia-related illnesses. Our Newsletters cover a wide range of topics, updates, and current events at CaringKind!
If you are thirty years old, you have been sleeping for about ten years. At age fifty, more than fifteen years. By seventy-five, you’ve racked up a quarter century of sleep. And more than 200,000 hours. How much do you remember about what happened to you as you slept all those years? And how much did you control the time you were asleep?
Home Care
Seventy percent of persons with Alzheimer’s disease are cared for at home.
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Residential Care
Alzheimer’s disease brings with it many tough choices for families. One that is often the most difficult is the decision to move the person with dementia from home into a nursing home or assisted living facility.
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Mild forgetfulness can be a normal part of the aging process. But when memory problems begin to seriously affect daily life, they could be early signs of Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia. CaringKind Chronicles tells the story of one family’s experience with Alzheimer’s disease.
Story 1 (8 Episodes)
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Story 2 (4 Episodes)
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The Family Caregiver Guide (FCG) provides detailed information on key topics critical for family members and friends who find themselves in a caregiving role. Topics include: Understanding Dementia, Effective Communication, Behaviors Have Meaning, and Caring for the Caregiver.
This booklet is for family members, friends and caregivers of a person who has dementia. The purpose is to provide information about the best ways to offer comfort and the best possible quality of life for someone whose dementia is progressing.
CaringKind’s Palliative Care for Advanced Dementia: Training and Implementation, addresses the need for improving the quality-of-life and care for residents diagnosed with advanced dementia who live in nursing homes, through a program that generates the special adaptations needed to make palliative care more effective for persons with advanced dementia and their families.
ADvancing Care is a newsletter for people who work in nursing homes and other residential care settings, and for the families and friends of those who live there.
Our support groups, led by trained facilitators, provide caregivers with the opportunity to discuss the many challenges of caring for a family member with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, with others who understand. Our goal is to provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease.