Home Safety: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Get tips to make a home safer for a person with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. Lock up poison and medicine and take steps to prevent falling.
Alzheimer's Disease Fact Sheet
Get the facts about Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia in older adults. Learn about symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and caregiving.
Preventing Alzheimer's Disease: What Do We Know?
Learn what research shows about Alzheimer’s risk factors and prevention strategies, including exercise, diet, and cognitive training.
Home Safety for People with Alzheimer's Disease
Get home safety tips that help a person with Alzheimer’s disease age in place. Learn what to do about driving, emergencies, and more.
Caring for Yourself: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s? Learn how to get help from family, friends, and others. Care for your own physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Hallucinations, Delusions, and Paranoia: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Learn how to react and keep things calm when a person with Alzheimer’s experiences hallucinations, delusions, or paranoia.
Sundowning: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Get tips for coping with sundowning—restlessness or agitation in the late afternoon and early evening in a person with Alzheimer’s.
Coping with Agitation and Aggression: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Understand the possible causes of Alzheimer’s-related agitation and aggression, and learn how to respond to troubling behavior.
Understand the possible causes of Alzheimer’s-related agitation and aggression, and learn how to respond to troubling behavior.
Get tips for coping with personality and behavior changes, such as pacing or feeling sad, that are common in people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Exercise and Physical Activity: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Get tips for starting a simple, safe exercise program at home.
Changes in Communications Skills: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Get tips on how to improve verbal and nonverbal communication with a person with Alzheimer’s disease.
Wandering: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Learn how to make changes at home to discourage wandering.
Bathing: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Learn safety tips and get advice for helping someone with Alzheimer’s disease take a bath or shower.
Driving Safety: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Know the danger signs for when a person with Alzheimer’s should limit or stop driving and how to discuss the issue sensitively.
Helping Kids Understand Alzheimer's Disease: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Get tips to help children and grandchildren understand Alzheimer’s disease plus ideas for spending time together.
Rummaging and Hiding Things: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Take steps to protect belongings while letting a person with Alzheimer’s rummage through drawers and other storage areas.
Healthy Eating: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Healthy foods like fruit and vegetables can help people with Alzheimer’s dementia. Get tips to maintain health and weight and keep a cooking routine.
Going to the Hospital: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Going to the hospital can be stressful for someone with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. Know what to expect and what to do in the ER and upon admission.
Daily Activities: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
People with Alzheimer’s dementia can stay active. Support them in activities that involve food, music, exercise, dance, gardening, and even cleaning.
Going Out: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Get tips to help a person with Alzheimer’s dementia be active. Learn about planning trips to restaurants or to a mall, art museum, park, or theater.
Grooming and Dressing: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Read tips to help someone with Alzheimer’s dementia with grooming, dressing, health, and care of nails and teeth—at home or at a barber or hair salon.
Managing Medicines: Alzheimer's Caregiving Tips
Get tips to help people with Alzheimer’s take medicine safely. A pillbox and other reminders can reduce confusion. A doctor or pharmacist can help.
Understanding Alzheimer's Disease: What You Need to Know
Learn about Alzheimer’s, a brain disease that causes memory loss and other symptoms. Find out when to see the doctor and what treatments are available.
Lewy Body Dementia: Information for Patients, Families, and Professionals
Learn about Lewy body dementia (Lewy body disease), a brain disorder that affects older adults and causes changes in thinking and movement.
The Dementias: Hope Through Research
This NIH guide is an overview of research on Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, mixed dementia, CTE, frontotemporal disorders, Lewy body dementia, and more.
Understanding Memory Loss: What To Do When You Have Trouble Remembering
What’s the difference between mild forgetfulness and more serious memory problems? Find out about memory problems, including Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, and how to get help for serious memory loss.
Forgetfulness: Knowing When to Ask for Help
Learn the difference between mild forgetfulness and more serious memory loss diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, and try these memory improvement tips.
Talking with Your Doctor: A Guide for Older People
Learn how to talk with your doctor and make the most of your appointment. Get tips on choosing a doctor.
Frontotemporal Disorders: Information for Patients, Families, and Caregivers
Get an overview of frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and related movement disorders. Learn about their symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and care.
Long-Distance Caregiving: Twenty Questions and Answers
Learn about caring for family and friends who live far from home. Questions about safety, health issues, and moving are answered in this NIA guide.
Legal and Financial Planning for People with Alzheimer’s Disease
Find out when and how to start making legal and financial plans for someone with Alzheimer’s. Advance directive, will, and other terms are defined.
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