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2. An adult day center in OKC receives grant support for respite ...

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   A longtime resource for seniors in northeast Oklahoma City is expanding its services to offer 24-hour respite care after receiving grant funding from a nationwide association researching dementia ...

3. Adult daycare center - Wikipedia

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   An adult daycare center is typically a non-residential facility that supports the health, nutritional, social, and daily living needs of adults in a professionally staffed, group setting. These facilities provide adults with transitional care and short-term rehabilitation following hospital discharge. [1][2] The majority of centers provide ...

4. Dementia caregiving - Wikipedia

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   Elderly caregiving may consist of formal care and informal care. Formal care involves the services of community and medical partners, while informal care involves the support of family, friends, and local communities. In most mild-to-medium cases of dementia, the caregiver is a spouse or an adult child.

5. Elderly care - Wikipedia

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   Elderly care. An old man at a nursing home in Norway. Elderly care, or simply eldercare (also known in parts of the English-speaking world as aged care), serves the needs of old adults. It encompasses assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care.

6. Geriatrics - Wikipedia

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   Hospitals, Clinics. Geriatrics, or geriatric medicine, [ 1 ] is a medical specialty focused on providing care for the unique health needs of the elderly. [ 2 ] The term geriatrics originates from the Greek γέρων geron meaning "old man", and ιατρός iatros meaning "healer". It aims to promote health by preventing, diagnosing and ...

7. Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia

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   Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, [ 2 ] and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. [ 2 ][ 15 ] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. [ 1 ] As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation ...