Dementia is often toted as the most misunderstood elder disease. Dementia is a lot like Alzheimer's disease in ways, with trademark challenges of memory. However, dementia is actually an umbrella term that is used to describe delayed cognitive function and memory challenges. Caring for someone with dementia can be challenging, to say the least, but there are many in-home nursing care representatives who can help change the stress of doing this on your own. Here is a look at a few reasons why in-home nursing care is an excellent choice for elderly patients with dementia. 

Dementia patients often forget their personal care needs. 

Bathing or showering, putting on clean clothes in the morning, and other personal hygiene acts are just an ordinary part of life. However, for those elderly individuals with dementia, these tasks can easily be neglected. Dementia patients commonly forget the time of day or days bleeds one into the next. Therefore, they may not realize they haven't brushed their hair that day or even if they've not had a shower recently. An in-home nurse will help ensure the personal care needs of the patient are met daily so these important things are properly handled. 

Dementia patients often forget things that put them in danger. 

Imagine what it would be like if you were cooking a meal and forgot halfway through what you were doing. Think about what would happen if you turned the tub on for a bath and then forgot you were going to take one. These are everyday occurrences for patients with dementia. They can forget their intentions in a matter of seconds if they get distracted by something else, and unfortunately, this can put the patient in dangerous situations. The in-home nurse will be there to catch these occurrences before they create a dangerous situation. 

Dementia patients often forget to meet their own medical needs. 

With older age comes things like taking prescribed daily medicine for health conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure. Elderly individuals sometimes must eat specific foods and avoid others. There are all kinds of things that should be done by many elderly individuals to stay healthy, but dementia patients can easily forget these things and inadvertently cause problems with their own health. An in-home nurse will help make sure medications are taken as prescribed, a healthy diet is being followed, and even that the patient is being seen by a doctor when it is necessary. 

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