Dementia and Alzheimer’s Prevention Tip: Stress Management

Dementia and Alzheimer’s Prevention Tip: Stress Management

How to Manage Stress?

Stress is the common word that we now hear for most of people. Especially to those people who are tired working day and night. Way back 30 years ago, no one is using the word “stress” but because we are living in a fast-pace world, we are having a hard time coping with the changes.

Mild stress can be useful at times like when you are in danger and your body feels the stress of needing to survive and pushing you to do something, you tend to act quickly and survive. However, if you are always stressed-out because of work, deadlines and many other things, it can hamper your brain. Chronic stress takes a substantial toll on our brain that will lead to memory shrinkage. When it happens every day, the risk of having AD and Dementia is high.

For people who already have dementia, you will notice that they are easily got irritated and get confuse which leads them to do something beyond control. It is like there are so many things that are getting into their head and they don’t know what to do. They become clumsy and helpless.

For caregivers, it is important that they are calm as well, because their patient can feel the stress they have and it can be able to transfer to them. Since you are in the right state of mind, it is a must that you calm yourself first because when people with Alzheimer’s start to panic, it is harder to calm them.

Stress Management is the key to Fight Alzheimer’s and Dementia

For people who are still in a healthy state of mind but always stressed these are the some of the techniques that you can do to manage stress.

1.  Breathe – Inhale and exhale. When you are stressed, you tend to breathe faster than the usual. Breathing fast has an impact to the oxygen of your brain. Bring back your normal breathing by doing a deep and abdominal breathing. Doing this exercise is very effective and doesn’t require anything to do. It is very simple and free.

2.  Make Time for Relaxation Activities – You can schedule it every morning or every night or every weekend. Do some activities that don’t require you to think hard. Walking in the park is one great activity to relax you or you can enroll in yoga class.

3.  Meditate – You can do this before you sleep and when you wake up. Practice inner peace through meditation, reflection and prayer.

Now that you can calm yourself, you can take care of your love ones with Dementia; you must see to it that your patient knows that he/she is not forgotten. Let your love one feels the love in you. Alzheimer ’s diseasecure is care, remember that.

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