Vascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia. Do you and your staff understand what it is and how it might affect resident care? According to the Alzheimer’s Association, symptoms of vascular dementia include:
One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s is the progressive nature of the disease. While each resident progress differently, experts, including Barry Reisberg, M.D., have developed stages to describe how an individual’s abilities change through the course of the disease.
Learn more about the latest data from the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2011 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures Report. Click here to download your copy for free: http://www.alz.org/downloads/Facts_Figures_2011.pdf.
Having a proven strategy for managing challenging behaviors can improve your success in caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The Alzheimer’s Association (www.alz.org) recommends this three-step approach to identifying common behaviors and their causes: