When you learn that someone you love has alzheimer’s disease ad you may wonder when and how to tell your family and friends you may…

Try: When you learn that someone you love has alzheimer’s disease ad you may wonder when and how to tell your family and friends you may be worried about how others will react to or treat the person you also may wonder if there is a right way to talk about it while there is no single right way to tell others we’ve listed some approaches to think about think about the following questions are others already wondering what is going on do you want to keep this information to yourself are you embarrassed do you want to tell others so that you can get support from family members and friends are you afraid that you will burden others does keeping this information secret take too much of your energy are you afraid others won’t understand realize that family and friends often sense that something is wrong before they are told ad is hard to keep secret when the time seems right it is best for you to be honest with family friends and others use this as a chance to educate them about ad information references "caring for a person with alzheimer’s disease your easy-to-use guide from the national institute on aging" by national institute on aging 2011 available at www nia nih gov

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Behavior Challenging, Caregiver Needs&Support, Emotional Psychological, Maintenance, Medical Physical, Personal, Social, Verbal Communication, So-So Verbal Comm, Poor Verbal Comm, Cognitive Awareness, Somewhat Aware, Unaware, Long-Term Memory, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, Short-Term Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory

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Keywords: Communication memory loss cognitive impairment odd behaviors family family meeting friends

*This information is listed as a Fact Sheet and is not explicitly medically licensed

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