Repeating the order for the umpteenth time, responding to inappropriate remarks, planning everything, providing everything, anticipating everything, cooking meals, yelling unwanted every day at the cost of your freedom and your desires. The day-to-day life of helping a parent or spouse with Alzheimer’s disease is not easy. And that’s an understatement. The physical and psychological burden that may seem manageable at the onset of the disease quickly becomes overwhelming. Caregivers and associations may indicate the helplessness of caregivers.
Surveys also paint a very bleak picture of this function: health problems, physical pain, sleep disturbances, anxiety, lack of time, fatigue or even loneliness. With more than a million people living with Alzheimer’s disease in France and more than 225,000 new cases diagnosed each year, everyone can become a helper one day.
Faced with health hazards and the risk of cracks, you need to arm yourself. Here are seven tips to better cope with this daily ordeal.
1. Don’t hesitate to ask for help
Respite care, day care, meals served at home, home care support… Help is out there…
Source: Le Figaro
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