Best FTD Resources
What If It's Not Alzheimer's |
Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 |
Association of Frontotemporal Dementia (Website) |
Managing Behaviors |
Pick's Disease Support Group (Website) |
University of California, San Francisco (Website) |
Family Caregiver Alliance (Website) |
Caring for Adults with Cognitive and Memory Impairments When reading articles from Family Caregiver Alliance, always review the links under the Resource section at the bottom of each article - Lots of good information. |
National Institutes of Health (Website) |
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Other Internet Articles
The most important rule: Treat the confused person as an adult -- always be respectful. |
Northwestern University in Chicago has the following pages to read. Housing Options |
The Victorian government in Australia has a website called Better Health Channel. Dementia - early planning will help |
At Caregiver.Com they have an article about leaving your loved one home alone. A member from the Yahoo Support Group brought this website to our attention. |
Jennifer J. Merrilees, RN, MS and Dr. Bruce L. Miller wrote this medical paper called "Long-Term Care of Patients with Frontotemporal Dementia." http://www.geroservices.com/downloads/pdf/ltc_frontotemporal.pdf |
The Annals of Long-Term Care provides this special article called "Comparing Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration: Implications for Long-Term Care" written by Jennifer Merrilees, RN, MS, and Dr. Bruce Miller. http://www.hmpcommunications.com/altc/displayArticle.cfm?articleID=article5086 For the full article click the link below. |
E-mail for Yahoo Support Group
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Traveling with a Dementia person |
Having Surgery? What You Need to Know http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/surgery/surgery.htm +11/06/06 (Don B.)
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The Nursing Center website provides this article, "The Bathing of Older Adults with Dementia." Once you get to this site, click on the button, "PDF Version" to review the article. +11/06/06 (Don B.) |
Dementia +11/06/06 (Don B.) |
Parent's Wish Quote : I found it very touching and appropriate for this group of caregivers and loved ones. +11/18/06 (Karen) |
Alzheimer's Disease International offers this page of useful tips http://www.alz.co.uk/carers/tips.html +12/05/06
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The National Guideline Clearinghouse offers this web page about bathing persons with dementia. Under the Recommendations are different sections that has some useful tips. http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?ss=15&doc_id=6220&nbr=3991#s23 +12/05/06
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Pain In doing some research this morning I came across a number of articles
talking about the use of a Visual analogue scale for pain, which is
used for young children, as well as for persons with various forms of dementia. The normal scale which most of us use.....indicating our pain on the scale of one to ten....will not be effective as the disease progresses. +11/20/07 (Mary~Canada)
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Holiday Articles
The Association for Frontotemporal Dementia offers this web page with holiday tips. http://www.ftd-picks.org/?p=news/HolidayHints +11/12/06 |
The Family Caregiver Alliance offers this web page called, http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=1039 +11/19/06 (Victoria F.) |
The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers holiday safety tips for your home. http://www.uirockford.com/decemberhealthreport.asp +11/09/06
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The University of Washington's ADRC Center offers this article "Beating the Holiday Blues." http://depts.washington.edu/adrcweb/DIMA04/DIMA04story2.html +11/09/06 |
Duke University's Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development published a document called: http://www.geri.duke.edu/service/dfsp/Holiday_Tips.pdf +11/09/06
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The Picket News offers an article called, "Memory Matters: Holidays and Dementia." http://www.picketnews.com/articleDetail.asp?cID=13&id=2368 +11/09/06 |
Alzheimer's Foundation of America provides a list to help keep the cheer in the holidays. http://www.alzfdn.org/education-care/holidays.shtml +11/09/06 |
University of Florida Health Science Center News offers a 2 minutes video on dealing with dementia over the holidays. There is a high speed version and low speed version. Or you can get the story on the web page. http://www.news.health.ufl.edu/tape_template.asp?ID=142 +11/09/06 |
The Alzheimer's Association offers this fact sheet about holidays. http://www.alz.org/Resources/FactSheets/FSHolidays.pdf +11/09/06 |
The Alzheimer's Society in the United Kingdom provides this document called "Traveling and going on holiday." http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/After_diagnosis/Driving_and_travelling/info_travelling.htm +11/09/06 |
The BJB Educational Services provided this web page called, "Minimizing Stress--During a Busy Holiday Season." http://pages.prodigy.net/bjbservices/stress.htm +11/09/06
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Yahoo Health offers this article, "Alzheimer's: Planning for the holidays." +11/09/06 |
The Alzheimer's Society of British Columbia offers this web page called, "Managing the Holidays - Introduction" http://www.alzheimerbc.org/newsletter_news.php?SUID=&id=47 +11/09/06 |
The Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association provides this web page called, "P E A C E for the Holidays." http://www.alznc.org/holidaypeace.php?size= +11/09/06
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The New York City Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association provides this web page called, "Holidays. This page has a lot of good information and easy to read. http://www.alznyc.org/_menu.main/caregiver/holiday.asp#c1 +11/09/06
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The Alzheimer's Services of Cape Code & the Islands provides "Keeping the Cheer in the Holidays". The site is a PDF file and the article is on page 1 and page 6. http://www.alzcapecod.org/newsletters/newsletter_fall2005.pdf +11/09/06 |
Holidays http://www.alz.org/living_with_alzheimers_holidays.asp +11/20/07 |