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.

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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.

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.