Preventing Dementia

While you can’t control all factors that contribute to Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, such as genetics and age, there are many contributing factors that you can control. An increase in physical activity is shown to decrease the probability of developing many types of dementia. Exercise promotes an increase of blood flow to vital […]

Understanding Challenging Behavior

By Sharon Roth Maguire MS, APRN-BC, GNP, APNP While being a caregiver to unusual or so-called “difficult” behaviors, it is quite common for persons with dementia to display these types of behaviors and while many of these behaviors are predictable, like repetitive questioning, pacing, forgetting how to use common objects, etc., there are others that […]