Providing compassionate and specialized care for individuals with dementia is crucial to ensuring their safety, comfort, and well-being. At Stay at Home, we understand the unique challenges those living with memory loss face and are dedicated to offering personalized support. Our tailored approach prioritizes each client's individual needs, promoting a sense of familiarity and security in their own homes.

Respite Care is short term care to provide relief to a person's primary caregiver.

Respite care offers a respite, or a break, to overworked caregivers. During respite care, an external nurse or aide temporarily helps tend to the person who needs care.

While respite care is meant to offer a reprieve for primary caregivers, this temporary assistance can also be refreshing for a person who needs care. They can meet new people or try new activities.

Caregiving can be physically and emotionally exhausting. Many caregivers report feeling burnout.1 Over time, caregivers may need to take a breather to run errands, relax, or fulfill their other responsibilities.

When caregivers can take some time to refresh their own mental and physical health, they may be able to take better care of their loved ones.2 Respite staff serve as mediators between people who need care and primary caregivers.

Respite Care Options

Caregivers and people who need care can pursue three primary...

Executive functioning involves the ability to organize, plan and carry out a set of tasks in an efficient manner. It also includes the ability to self-monitor and control our behaviors and multiple other cognitive functions and to perform goal-directed behavior. It can be described as high level thinking skills that control and direct lower levels of cognitive functioning.

Interestingly, although memory impairment often goes along with executive impairment, a person can show no memory problems but still be impaired in decision-making and executive functioning.

On a practical level, impairments in executive functioning have been associated with impairments in activities of daily living which include getting dressed, the ability to feed oneself, bathe oneself and more.

Executive functioning ability has been strongly connected to working memory ability.

Alzheimer's Disease

In people with...

Older adults may worry about their memory and other thinking abilities, such as taking longer to learn something new. These changes are usually signs of mild forgetfulness — or age-related forgetfulness — and are often a normal part of aging.

However, more serious memory problems could be due to mild cognitive impairment, dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease, or other factors beyond normal aging.

Memory changes with age

As people grow older, changes occur in all parts of the body, including the brain. As a result, some people notice that they don’t remember information as well as they once did and aren’t able to recall it as quickly. They may also occasionally misplace things or forget to pay a bill. These usually are signs of mild forgetfulness, not a...