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To prevent the elderly with dementia from receiving inadequate recognition of pain, nurses should use common sense to aid in assessments. [52] Interpreting body language has been shown to be effective in relieving discomfort. Another way to improve perceptions of pain is to get to know the patient better through family members’ eyes.
Gerontological nursing includes educating the elderly patient to be honest in discussing falls with medical professionals, using ambulatory aids, having adequate footwear and adequate lighting when ambulating. Doing medication checks with any new prescriptions can help to reduce side effects that can cause a fall in the elderly.
Seniors with dementia experience the same prevalence of conditions likely to cause pain as seniors without dementia. [239] Pain is often overlooked in older adults and, when screened for, is often poorly assessed, especially among those with dementia, since they become incapable of informing others of their pain.
This method of helping persons with dementia and other memory impairments was shown to be effective in a number of different contexts. These include long-term care, assisted living, independent living and home-based care. It is also used in intergenerational programming where memory impaired older adults and young children participate together ...
In addition, a recent published paper showed a high frequency of depression and anxiety levels in caregivers of adult people with epilepsy. [26] In another extensive meta-analysis, Pinquart and Sörensen (2007) could show that the subjective burden is an important predictor of the health of carers.
Some drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes could also help lower a person’s risk of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. Image credit: martin-dm/Getty Images.
Exercising at consistent times daily has been proposed to improve circadian rhythm and reduce the symptoms of sundown syndrome in people with Alzheimer's and dementia. [2] It has also been observed that people with Alzheimer's walking in the morning or afternoon hours had improvements in sundowning symptoms. [2] [25]
For affective function the researchers used the Geriatric Depression Scale short form (GDS-SF) to determine the personal opinion of the demented elderly on their state of well-being and the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) to analyze how their caregivers felt the patient was doing emotionally.