Alzheimer’s Caregivers Tips: Coping with the Pain of Forgetting

November 27, 2019

Alzheimer care at home in Kansas City, Leawood, Mission Hills and North Kansas City comes with a slew of challenges. Not the least of which is coping with the fact that your loved one with memory loss is slowly losing the ability to remember family members.

 

If you are a providing dementia care to a loved one, your list of things to do every day gets longer as the loved one’s needs increase. Thoughtful Care, located in Johnson County, is a leader in Alzheimer’s and memory Care. Our in-home dementia caregivers can help lessen the burden and ease the pain of family senior caregivers.

 

Here are some of our expert ideas to help cope with the pain of forgetting.

  • Take the burden off of yourself. Just as there is no such thing as the perfect parent, caring for someone with Alzheimer’s is not going to go perfectly. You are allowed to make mistakes, and you will. Easy does it.
  • Lower expectations of your loved one . This means not making agreements that might be forgotten, or getting upset when a name or face is forgotten.
  • Ground yourself in acceptance . It’s not easy to accept that your loved one is changing and that memory loss is the new norm, but accepting things exactly how they are will make things easier each day.
  • Educate yourself and your family. Though dementia changes from day to day, knowing more about the nature of dementia can help give a road map, even when the course seems to keep changing.
  • Get help. The in-home dementia care professionals at Thoughtful Care are here to help you get the break you need from caregiving. Call us today to get an in-home assessment.

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