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2. Is It Time to Put Your Senior Relative with Dementia in a ...

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   Adult day centers offer a lively environment similar to a summer day camp, but they cater to the needs of seniors, allowing them to enjoy activities and meals in a social setting outside their homes.

3. Nursing home - Wikipedia

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   Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and whether they provide mostly assisted living , or nursing care and emergency medical care .

4. Residential care - Wikipedia

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   Nursing homes, also known as rest homes or skilled nursing facilities, are intended for people who need ongoing medical care as well as help with daily activities. Nursing home populations have been decreasing in the United States, despite the increase in the elderly population, because of the increasing availability of other options such as ...

5. Dementia caregiving - Wikipedia

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   While family caregivers often care for patients with dementia at home, they also provide a helpful function within nursing or residential aged care facilities. Caregivers of these patients in nursing homes with dementia usually do not have sufficient tools or clinical guidance for helping to manage multiple interventions, such as behavioral and ...

6. Older adults share life experiences through Legacy Conversations

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   The Tell Me a Story: Legacy Conversations were videoed by ImagineIF staff and photographed by Picture Montana. Photos will hang at ImagineIF Libraries and videos will be posted on social media.

7. Hi-tech for dementia patients boosts quality of life and ...

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   Aug. 13—BRENTWOOD — In the dementia unit at Rockingham Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, four residents 69 to 89 sit captivated around the "magic table," waiting for the next game, puzzle ...

8. Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia

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   Regarding incidence, cohort longitudinal studies (studies where a disease-free population is followed over the years) provide rates between 10 and 15 per thousand person-years for all dementias and 5–8 for AD, [235] [236] which means that half of new dementia cases each year are Alzheimer's disease. Advancing age is a primary risk factor for ...

9. Dementia with Lewy bodies - Wikipedia

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   Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a type of dementia, a group of diseases involving progressive neurodegeneration of the central nervous system. [11] It is one of the two Lewy body dementias, along with Parkinson's disease dementia. [12] Dementia with Lewy bodies can be classified in other ways.