FREE-EBOOK: 20 TIPS FOR CAREGIVERS

Looking after Someone with Alzheimer’s at Home

Being a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s is not an easy task, there is no school for this. You just have to face it when you have to and it is either your choice or you have no choice.

Caregiving is a noble act especially if you are not being paid to do this. You need to attend to the person who has this 24/7. Sometimes, the burden is unbearable even if you love the person very much. It seems that this disease imprisoned both the caregiver and the person who has it.

The caregiver can’t do the usual things. Schedules, commitments and other routine activities should be adjusted. As a caregiver, it is your duty to keep the one your caring for safe. You know that a simple forgetfulness can lead to something serious like burning the house if the person who has this disease forgets about the cooking. You should also look after the medication because forgetting it might worsen the disease.

Aside from your burden of your duties and responsibilities there is also an emotional torture that you are enduring everyday seeing your love ones losing every single memory. Sending them in institution can be expensive and you can’t be sure if they are safe there so the safest thing to do is to have them where you can see them. Aside from expenses and safety issue, it is hard to let them on their own in times they needed you the most.

With all this concern, we are giving away FREE-EBOOK: 20 TIPS FOR CAREGIVERS to all of our supporters and caregivers. You can download this for a limited time only at our Facebook account. Here’s what you should do qualify for it.

1. Go to our page https://www.facebook.com/relinkpage
2. Hit like and
3.  Download it

These are the three easy steps to have it. All we are asking in return are your reviews which you can write at Amazon.

Your reviews, feedback and suggestions are our guide and motivation to do better and to keep going.

 Relink Device helps people with Alzheimer’s disease fight loneliness and secure that the family member’s presence is felt even when they are not in the area. 

Caregivers Weekly Newsletter

We are releasing weekly newsletter for caregivers to help them understand Alzheimer's and Dementia Disease. This newsletter also aims to help them cope up with the situation through tips and inspiration.

Caregivers Weekly Newsletter contains the following:

News

We bring you the latest news in Alzheimer's, Dementia and other related disease. We bring you new discoveries found out by the researchers and how this discoveries affect the disease. We are hoping for cure so stay tuned for the latest news and maybe one day a cure will be discovered. We promise to let you know.

Caregiver Tips

Tips and advise coming from the expert and the people who are experiencing the same will be delivered to you!

Blogs

We will bring you interesting blogs written by the person who are suffering the disease or their caregivers. Read their journey and you will realize that you are not alone.

Articles

We will give you the best articles written in the web. We will pick not only the interesting articles but most importantly we will give you the most useful one.

Story

Weekly, you will receive one story from the person who has the disease. It will serve as an inspiration to all.

Our first and second newsletter already came out! Be part of the third issue. Subscribe here.

Your suggestions, comments and feedback will be greatly appreciated. Write it below!

Thank you!

RELINK

Alzheimer’s Disease Communication Device

Tool to Help People with AD Do Their Daily Activities

As we mention from our previous blog (10 Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease), one of the early signs of A.D is having a hard time to focus, thus they forget what they suppose to do at the moment. They also lose track of date and time. It is helpful at the early stage to have communication device to help them remember a simple task.

One of the major problems of people living with Dementia or Alzheimer’s facing is undernourishment. They are undernourished because they skipped meals. They skipped meals not because they don’t want to eat but because they forget their mealtime. Not eating at the right time causes more problems and it makes the brain functions even poorly. Nourishment is very important and so eating at the right time.

You will also notice that they forget their proper hygiene. They don’t take a bath, brush their teeth and dress up. They forget that these things are necessary and should be done daily. A reminder will be helpful. It will serve as a spark of light in the darkness.

Another thing is that you should also remind them about the time of sleep. They need sleep to slow the disease. They need to be healthy as much as possible.

There are people in the early stage who lives alone and who can still manage to do their routine work. The only problem is they forgot so a communication device will be a lot of help.

One of Relink feature is “Routine Reminder”. See picture below.

Most likely it will be look like that. Relink is still under completion so expect some change. It might change base on the feedback we get. Make sure to follow us on Facebook to get the latest updates.

Routine helps people with A.D to cope with daily tasks like eating, bathing and other activities through a gentle reminder. Pictures and words are enough to help them remember.

To begin with, we would have:
- to eat
- to bath, dress up
- to sleep

Whatever you want us to add and whatever you find useful just say it. It will be a great help for the team to make it perfect. Feel free to leave us a comment below.

Relink Device helps people with Alzheimer’s disease fight loneliness and secure that the family member’s presence is felt even when they are not in the area. 

The Importance of Alzheimer’s Disease Early Diagnosis

Alzheimer’s Disease Early Diagnosis

Alzheimer’s Disease as we all know has no cure so why it important to be diagnosed early? It is essential to know as early as possible if you have or your love ones have this disease because it will help them to prepare early.

Alzheimer’s Disease is a horrible disease and it is hard to know that you has it. However, we need to be brave to face the truth and we should learn how to deal with difficult things in our life. It is difficult not only for the person who will suffer it but also for the family members who will going to endure it.

Preparation is the key to live a comfortable and harmonious life. If you have this disease you know that you or your love ones will become forgetful or will totally forget everything. What are the things you should settle before your memory totally gone out? This is the first thing that you should ask yourself from the moment that you find out.

Read “Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease or Simple Forgetfulness?” to know if it is time to see your doctor.

I have also written the 10 Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease to help you better. If you have notice unusual behavior then don’t wait before it is too late to see a doctor or bring your love one to the specialist especially if this disease runs in the family.

Benefits of Early Diagnosis

1.   You can have early treatment. As mentioned above there is no cure yet. However, there are medications that can help slow it down and can help with dealing with the symptoms such as depression and nutritional deficiencies.

2. You can prepare tools and aids that you can use to live independently or your love ones to live independently. Relink device can help you out with this matter because oftentimes person with Alzheimer’s Disease forget to take medication or forgot if it was taken already. You can set Relink to remind the person if it is time to take the medicine. Prescribed medicine that hasn't taken in the right manner will not work and it might worsen the health condition of the person. Relink will not only help reminding about taking the medicine but it also helps this individual remember important events.

3.   Preparing finances as early as possible is equally important because this disease is quite expensive. As early as today you have to decide where to get financial help or how to use retirement plan or savings wisely.

Preparation and acceptance is the key. You will surely have enough to deal with in the future. Do what you can do today to lessen the burden to you and to your family. Detecting the disease early will surely keep you out of trouble and will not take anyone in surprise and caught unprepared.

Relink Device helps people with Alzheimer’s disease fight loneliness and secure that the family member’s presence is felt even when they are not in the area. 

Alzheimer’s Disease Cure is Care

Alzheimer’s Disease is a disease with no cure and it is more likely to happen to people who have relatives who have history of Alzheimer. This disease usually occurs at old age. It is heartbreaking to the family members but they should be prepared beforehand. Preparation can help them cope up easily and can help the patient to live well.

Do not stress yourself on looking out for cure because you will just get frustrated instead look for ways on how to make things light. Look for tools and people that can help you to lighten up your load. You can’t cure them but you can show you care.

If your parents or one of them was stricken by this sickness seek help and have a meeting with your family members. Tell them about the situation and plan what you are going to do. If possible let the patient stay in your house so you can take care of him/her.

In the morning, you can take your love one to a walk. Walking can help the patient improve health, psychologically and physically. Don’t think of this as a duty, think of this as something you need to do for yourself as well. If walking can calm people with Alzheimer’s disease, it can calm your spirit as well.

Do not look at them with fear and loneliness because people with Alzheimer as their thinking and mental condition decline, their emotional contagion increases. They can copy what you feel so you should show them a happy face every time you look at them. You should also treat them with calmness so their feelings will be calm as well.

If you are working and can’t be with your love one, you can arrange a schedule with some of your family members so there is someone to look after him/her. It is not advisable to leave the patient alone since they have trouble in deciding what to do each day. It will cost you a lot of trouble. You might find your house burning if the patient decided to cook and forget all about it. Your patient might go for a walk and forgot how to go home and some other unpleasant scenarios. See to it that there is someone who is looking after him/her. If no one is available, you can hire someone but be sure that this someone cares for people like this. You can also put CCTV at every corner of your house so you can monitor them and you can be sure that your love one is taking care of and not mistreated.

Their time is short, show them you care even when you are not around by providing everything they need. Make sure that the patient is comfortable and happy because when they are lonely, their condition worsens. Help People withAlzheimer Fight Loneliness and show them you care.

Relink Device helps people with Alzheimer’s disease fight loneliness and secure that the family member’s presence is felt even when they are not in the area. 

Relink - Help People with Alzheimer Fight Loneliness

RELINK Device Helps You to Stay Connected

Relink is a device created to help people with Alzheimer. Since this illness doesn’t have any cure at the moment, we’ve decided to create a tool that will help to ease the burden of the caregivers as well as to help people with Alzheimer don’t feel alone. In fact, 62% of the people who suffered from this disease who lives alone feel lonely. What are you going to do to relive their loneliness?

We are not always there for them. There are instances that you have to leave your love one to the care of other people. It is not because you don’t love them or you don’t want to take care of them but there are other things that has to be done in a day and you want to make sure that they are well taking care of.

Even if you know that they are in a safe place, we can help but to think of them and wonder what they are doing. Relink knows how you feel, thus it will make you stay connected with your love one even if you are far from them.

Relink helps people with Alzheimer to be aware of the day and time. Usually, they are not aware of the day. So from the moment they wake up Relink will help them to be time aware. A voice prompt will tell them the date and time and so some realization will come in their head.

Relink device helps the people with Alzheimer Disease remember who you are and who their family members are. They will realize that they have family who loves them. You can set a device to let them remember an event they have to attend. You can also use this device to send your picture and let them know who you are and where you are at the moment. You can also send a voice message to say hi and hello.

Another important function of Relink device is that people with AD will be reminded to take their medicine. This will help them to stay independent. They can take their medicine without someone telling them.

It is important with the people with Alzheimer to know that there are people in their life and they are not alone. Your words, your voice and your pictures will make them happy and make them feel loved.

If you believe that this device is helpful for you leave us a comment. Visit Relink website to know more.