Adult Daycare for Dementia Patients Reduces Caregiver Stress

Caregiver stress is lowered, and mood is improved, on days when dementia patients attend adult day care programs.Theimportance of adult day care as a toolin effective caregiving cannot not be underestimated.Even one or two days a week can make a difference,and keep the dementia patient at home and out of a nursing home or memory care facility.6 reasons why you might have to put someone with dementia in a memory care facility or nursing homeBy Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:Health care providers, and health care regulators, are beginning to understand that the combination of day care and staying at home are a real, more cost effective, and better way of caring for patients with dementia as opposed to placement in a nursing home or memory care facility.The Importance of Socialization in Dementia Care"We realized it is cheaperto keep people at home. We can save a lot of money, and it is what they want."~ Teresa Wood, Vermont home-care project, Waterbury, Vermont"Family members who care for dementia patients are susceptible to experiencinghigh levels ofstress. One way of alleviating stress is throughthe use of anadult day care, which allows a predictable break from caregiving responsibilities."~ Steven Zarit, professor and head of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State.Learn More -Dementia Patients Can Deceive Others to the Distress of Their CaregiverSocial Adult Daycare for Dementia Patients an...
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