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07/11/2016

Want to understand Alzheimer's Disease and how to manage each stage in a healthy way? This book isn't a story . It is a manual written for all caregivers.

14/10/2016

This isn't a story. This is a guide for all caregivers.

CHAPTER 1 defines Alzheimer’s disease, its origin, and its effects on not only the person with the disease but also his or her family. Initial signs are discussed, as well as how to recognize them. The reader is educated on the nature of human memory and its functions and on those disease changes that occur at brain cells. The chapter establishes the benefits of early diagnosis for both the affected person and family members. It creates awareness about family roles and the importance of making decisions to protect the affected person’s health and well-being, as well as that of the primary caregiver.

CHAPTER 2 presents all three stages of Alzheimer’s disease and orients caregivers to symptoms and associated challenges during each stage. It offers recommendations and strategies for managing symptoms, optimizing care, ensuring caregiver and patient safety, and preventing disruptive behavior.

CHAPTER 3 describes Alzheimer’s disease symptoms and challenges for caregivers, including changes that occur during the aging process and cognitive and functional declines. The chapter offers helpful strategies for identifying, preventing, and delaying functional and cognitive declines, along with recommendations and strategies for preventing associated complications with bedbound persons, such as limited mobility, decubitus ulcers, and contractures. The chapter also includes recommendations for adaptive equipment to be used to facilitate provision of care.

CHAPTER 4 further explains the cognitive and functional capacity of those with Alzheimer’s and the importance of using activities with functional purpose to delay declines. It presents the Profile of Functional Ability Questionnaire (Appendix A), an instrument that will allow caregivers to more clearly determine what the person can or cannot do and how much help is required in order to maintain the person’s functional level. The included functional-purpose activities are designed to assist affected persons in participating in ADLs independently, with supervision, or with assistance.

CHAPTER 5 discusses the factors that cause accidents at home. It presents the home evaluation (Appendix B) along with recommendations for modifications that can be made to develop a safe environment for the affected person and his or her caregiver. It also includes information about the causes of back injuries and recommendations for avoiding them while caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease or any type of dementia.

CHAPTER 6 stresses the importance of caregivers taking care of their health in order to be able to take care of a person with Alzheimer’s or other dementia. It presents those factors that cause stress and describes caregiver’s burnout syndrome, as well as the responses of the body to stress, and it includes recommendations for reducing stress, ways to seek help, and guidelines for recognizing when it’s time to move the affected person to a long-term care home. The chapter aims to help family members to recognize abuse, mistreatment, neglect, abandonment, and exploitation, and it includes recommendations to follow when these things are suspected

14/10/2016

Feeling burned out?

13/10/2016

Pictures of the author enjoying this event and sharing information with different representatives from different countries.

10/10/2016

This week out author is participating in this multinational event to learn more about Alzheimer, coordinate with other countries and share her knowledge which is found in her book. She is the only author who has formal education, clinical experience as a physical therapist for this population and personal experience as a primary caregiver to her father.

10/10/2016

Federación Internacional de Asociaciones y Fundaciones cuya misión sea mejorar la calidad de vida de los enfermos de Alzheimer, otras demencias y desordenes neurológicos, de sus cuidadores y familias. TODOS UNIDOS POR NUESTRA CAUSA COMÚN.

10/10/2016

What makes this book different than those is the market is that this IS NOT her story about her taking care of her dad. This book is a
comprehensive and easy to read guide for caregivers. It contains a lot of detailed knowledge you would expect to learn from a PhD, but without the need to have a PhD to understand it and apply it. It explains in detail the disease and how to manage each step in a
healthy way. It allows the reader to understand the reasons behind the different behaviors and at the same time provides many management tool for those behaviors.

07/10/2016

Formal Education in Alzheimer's Disease + Clinical Experience as a Physical Therapist for the Alzheimer's Disease population + Personal Experience as a caregiver for her dad who suffered from Alzheimer's Disease = a Great Conference for everyone. It all comes from her book. Get your copy today by clicking the SHOP NOW button.

06/10/2016

We are very proud of Dr. Enna D. Santiago as she uses her work to educate healthcare professionals at all levels in conferences that offer continuing education. This conference is using the Spanish version of the book which is called "Para cuidar hay aur cuidarse".

06/10/2016

Hundreds of caregivers can't leave their home to go talk to an expert or attend a meeting. This book brings an expert to your home in a very comprehensive and easy to read format.
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05/10/2016

One of the greatest honors we had was to be given the opportunity to educate the different police chiefs in Puerto Rico on how to recognize and carefully manage a situation involving a person suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. What to say, how to approach and other ideas for when they find themselves with a person that is lost in the streets without any idea of where they are, who they are and what a police officer is. It can be a very touchy situation.

05/10/2016

One of the greatest honors we had was to be given the opportunity to educate the different police chiefs in Puerto Rico on how to recognize and carefully manage a situation involving a person suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. What to say, how to approach and other ideas for when they find themselves with a person that is lost in the streets without any idea of where they are, who they are and what a police officer is. It can be a very touchy situation.

A través del Consejo de Seguridad Region Los Angeles dirigido por su presidente el Señor Hugo Alvarez, la Dra. Enna D. Santiago tuvo la oportunidad de compartir con varios agentes de la Policia de Puerto Rico, residentes de la comunidad, pastores y FEMA información de seguridad para una persona con la condición de Alzheimer. Todo el material de la conferencia se puede encontrar en el libro Para cuidar hay que cuidarse. Fue un honor estar reunidos con estos servidores públicos.

05/10/2016

Hundreds of caregivers can't leave their home to go talk to an expert or attend a meeting. This book brings an expert and what she has taught at all of her conferences to your home in a very comprehensive and easy to read format.

26/09/2016

Inside view, Chapter 6

25/09/2016

Dr. Enna D. Santiago will be participating in this event. Our hope is to join forces with global agencies to better equip caregivers. Statistics show that it is the caregiver who usually dies before the one they are taking care of. This creates a much more stressful environment for the person suffering from Alzheimer's disease and the family who will have to pick up the scattered pieces of the puzzle without any idea of what to do next.

25/09/2016

Inside view, Chapter 1

20/09/2016

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When Alzheimer’s disease enters the life of a family member, it also touches us in different ways. That is the reason why it becomes necessary to learn about the disease, in order to be able to help our affected family member and to handle the symptoms and challenges related to it. The boo...

19/09/2016

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07/09/2016

Imprisoned in one's own rapidly shrinking brain is how a doctor described it to me. I wouldn't wish Dementia/Alzheimer's on my worst enemy. As the patient's brain slowly dies, they change physically and eventually forget who their loved ones are. Patients can eventually become bedridden, unable to move & unable to eat or drink. There will be people who will scroll by this message because Dementia/Alzheimer's has not touched them. They may not know what it's like to have a loved one who has led a battle against Dementia/Alzheimer's. For all the people I know, I ask a small favor. If you know someone who has battled with Dementia/Alzheimer's or is still struggling, please add this to your status for one hour. Copy & Paste to support victims & families affected by this cruel illness as there is no cure and there are no survivors! Hold your finger on the message to copy it, then paste it on your page. No tagging or sharing. Do this on behalf of all caregivers who love or care for someone with this disease.

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About the author

27/08/2016

Japan expects 7 million cases of dementia among its long-lived residents by 2025. It has started training pharmacists, bankers and postal workers in how to recognize the signs and be supportive.

25/08/2016

What song is your loved one's favorite? For more on the role music and art play for the Alzheimer's patients, visit goo.gl/2pEIho.

15/08/2016