Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Support Center

Chapter 13
Pages 189-190

Chapter 14
Pages 193-204
Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment

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The Victorian government in Australia has a website called "Better Health Channel."

General Safety Information

The Alzheimer's Association

http://www.alz.org/Resources/FactSheets/FSSafety.pdf

CareGuides@home

Adapting the Home for Alzheimer's and Dementia Sufferers

The Desert Southwest Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association offers this web page about home safety.

http://www.alzdsw.org/_tips1.shtml#safety

The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers holiday safety tips for your home.

http://www.uirockford.com/decemberhealthreport.asp

• Get rid of guns. Remove guns from the house. At a minimum, lock guns away in a cabinet or drawer that is sturdy and that does not have glass, be sure the pFTD does not have access to the key.
• Install trigger guards on all guns to prevent them being used.
• Don’t keep guns loaded; store ammunition in a separate place.
• Keep the keys for the trigger guards, gun cabinet, and ammunition locker outside of the home.
• Never let a person with dementia handle a gun.
  
  

The most important thing with firearms is to get them out of the hands of a demented person. Store them at another's family's home or a neighbor's home or sell them. There is no benefit of keeping guns in a home with a someone with dementia lives. Only regret and sorrow would result if a gun is used to harm or hurt someone else.

For my family we had the potential of a unforgetable incident. My brother fired a gun (dried-fire, no bullet in the chamber) at his girlfriend's son in the house. He said, "I was only playing!" We removed all the guns and hunting equipment out of the house.

It is not worth having a gun in the house. The benefit of having a gun in the house does not outweigh the consequences if the the gun is used in the wrong manner.

Department of Veterans Affairs offers this PDF file about dementia and Firearms

http://www1.va.gov/VHAPUBLICATIONS/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1186

Alzbrain.org offers this web page

http://www.alzbrain.org/quicklinks/Managing/wanderingDementiaSimple.htm

Alzheimer's Society

Walking About or Wandering

Wandering in Dementia from MyDr.Com

http://www.mydr.com.au/default.asp?article=2838

Alzheimer's Association

http://www.alz.org/Care/Behaviors/wandering.asp

How to deal with Wandering

http://www.agingcarefl.org/caregiver/resources/wandering

Alzheimer's Foundation of America

http://www.alzfdn.org/education-care/wandering.shtml

Alzheimer's Europe

How to prevent Wandering