Try: Daily routines can be helpful for both the caregiver (cg) and the Care recipient (cr) with alzheimer alzheimer’s disease a planned day allows you to spend less time trying to figure out what to do and more time on activities that provide meaning and enjoyment for the cr a person with alzheimer alzheimer’s disease or other progressive dementia will eventually need a caregiver caregiver’s assistance to organize the day structured and pleasant activities can often reduce agitation and improve mood planning activities for a person with dementia works best when you continually explore experiment and adjust before making a plan consider the person person’s likes dislikes strengths abilities and interests how the person used to structure his or her day what times of day the person functions best ample time for meals bathing and dressing regular times for waking up and going to bed especially helpful if the person with dementia experiences sleep issues or sun downing make sure to allow for flexibility within your daily routine for spontaneous activities as alzheimer alzheimer’s disease progresses the abilities of a person with dementia will change with creativity flexibility and problem solving you’ll be able to adapt your daily routine to support these changes checklist of daily activities to consider household chores mealtimes personal care creative activities music art crafts information references adapted from www alz org "creating a daily plan" by staff writer no date
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Categories: Maintenance, Medical Physical, Personal, Independence, Some Supervision, Maximum Supervision, Somewhat Aware, Unaware, So-So L T Memory, Poor L T Memory, So-So S T Memory, Poor S T Memory
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Keywords: Daily routine organizing the day activities of daily living daily chores personal care bathing grooming
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