sundowning
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Hi Maggier
Here's an easy read about Sundowning and what you can do to lessen it.
Click on:
http://www.alz.org/grtrcinc/hwGCChaSundowning.htm
Here's an easy read about Sundowning and what you can do to lessen it.
Click on:
http://www.alz.org/grtrcinc/hwGCChaSundowning.htm
Hi maggier,
I'm sure that lots of us didn't know this term until reading about it on TP (so you're not thick!) Here is a previous discussion about this:
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/TalkingPoint/Discuss/showthread.php?t=338&highlight=sundowning
There is an explanation in the Fact sheet about 'Later stagesof dementia' but we experienced these episodes quite early on with my Dad.
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/Facts_about_dementia/How_dementia_progresses/info_later.htm
(It's under 'Puzzling behaviour').
Best wishes,
I'm sure that lots of us didn't know this term until reading about it on TP (so you're not thick!) Here is a previous discussion about this:
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/TalkingPoint/Discuss/showthread.php?t=338&highlight=sundowning
There is an explanation in the Fact sheet about 'Later stagesof dementia' but we experienced these episodes quite early on with my Dad.
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/Facts_about_dementia/How_dementia_progresses/info_later.htm
(It's under 'Puzzling behaviour').
Best wishes,
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Hi maggier,
Hazel and Sue have given some excellent links, but can I add one more to the alphabet soup? This article is about ways to deal with sundowning, written by a woman who cared for her mother-in-law, Milly, who had AD
http://www.healingwell.com/library/alzheimers/knox2.asp
Take care,
Sandy
Hazel and Sue have given some excellent links, but can I add one more to the alphabet soup? This article is about ways to deal with sundowning, written by a woman who cared for her mother-in-law, Milly, who had AD
http://www.healingwell.com/library/alzheimers/knox2.asp
Take care,
Sandy
