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Home » Senior Health » Dementia » Senior Health: Challenges and Tips with Early-Onset Dementia

Senior Health: Challenges and Tips with Early-Onset Dementia

March 25, 2021 By Stephanie Miller

Senior Health: Early-Onset Dementia

Dementia is a disease that involves many different symptoms.

Most of these symptoms can affect every part of an elderly person’s life. If your elderly loved one has dementia, it can affect their social abilities, behaviors, intellectual abilities, and much more. As the disease gets worse, it will start affecting your elderly loved one every single day. Most of the time, people don’t get diagnosed with dementia until they are 65 or older. However, sometimes, people are diagnosed with early-onset dementia. If this is what your elderly loved one has been diagnosed with, there are some challenges and tips that you should know about. It is also important to remember that you don’t have to care for them all on your own. You can hire elderly care providers to help. 

Effects on Life Changes for Your Elderly Loved One

If your elderly loved one has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, it is important that you learn all you can about the disease. You should start by learning about the ways that this disease is going to affect your elderly loved one. The more you can learn about this aspect of the disease, the more you can prepare yourself and your elderly loved one for what is going to happen. Some of the effects on life changes that will happen for your elderly loved one include the following: 

  • Becoming disengaged with other people
  • Losing their sense of identity 
  • Losing friendships and even some family relationships 
  • Feeling fearful and humiliated because of this diagnosis
  • Refusing the care they need from elderly care providers
  • Getting aggressive 
  • Forgetting more and more things as time passes

These are just some of the effects that early-onset dementia will have on your elderly loved one. Now that you know these things, you can prepare yourself. You can make a plan for what to do when these things happen, as well. 

Senior Health And Daily Living Challenges for Your Elderly Loved One

In addition to the things that were just mentioned, there are some daily living challenges that your elderly loved one will face. There are some that you might face because of their disease, too. Some of the daily living challenges include the following: 

  • Not being able to pay bills on their own
  • Not being able to use the bathroom or shower on their own
  • Not being able to work or leave the house on their own
  • Not being able to care for others anymore
  • Not being able to be as active as they were
  • Not being able to live out the rest of their dreams

The younger your elderly loved one is when they get this diagnosis, the more these daily living challenges are going to affect them. 

Senior Health: Tips to Allow You to Help Your Elderly Loved One

Now that you know more about the challenges, it is important to have some tips to help you and your elderly loved one, as well. Some of the tips that can help include the following: 

  • Make the home safe for your elderly loved one
  • Create good routines for your loved one 
  • Help your elderly loved one with mental and physical exercises 
  • Allow them to stay social for as long as possible
  • Hire elderly care providers to help

If you do these things, you will have better control over the senior health situation that you and your elderly loved one are in with this disease. 

Senior Health: Conclusion

These are some of the challenges and tips that go along with early-onset dementia. If your elderly loved one has this disease, hopefully, this information helps you to be more prepared. 

If you or an aging loved-one are considering hiring Elderly Care in Beaverton, OR, please contact the caring staff at Integrity In-Home Care. Call today (503) 660-3755

Sources

https://www.nia.nih.gov/

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