Site Map for Dementia Care Notes

Site Map for Dementia Care Notes.

• Welcome to Dementia Care Notes!.
  • About Dementia.
  • What is dementia?.
  • Diseases that cause dementia.
  • Dementia Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention.
  • Dementia Risk Reduction: Infographic.
  • Stages of dementia.
  • How dementia impacts behavior.
  • Dementia in India: An overview.
  • Dementia risk factors related research.
  • Dementia reports, studies, policy news from India and outside.
• Caring for persons with dementia.
  • Dementia Home Care: An Overview.
  • Understand the caregiver’s role.
  • Plan care for various stages of dementia.
    • Plan care for younger persons with dementia.
  • Adapt the home for persons with dementia.
  • Caregiving Essential Toolkit.
    • How to communicate with a person with dementia.
    • Help with Activities of Daily Living (ADL).
    • Handle Behavior Challenges in Dementia.
    • Special tips for challenging behaviors: wandering, incontinence, repetitions, sundowning.
    • Late-stage dementia care.
    • Using Trained Attendants for Dementia Home Care.
    • Using various dementia/ home care services.
  • Improve the quality of life of persons with dementia.
  • Coordinate dementia care with family members.
  • Caregiver emotions and stress.
  • How relatives/ friends/ colleagues can help a family coping with dementia.
  • Long-Distance Dementia Caregiving for Persons living in India.
  • Dementia Care During COVID-19: Infographics With Tips
  • Dementia Home Care during COVID – Infection Risk, Vaccination, Care Approach.
• Voices and Interviews around dementia.
  • Interviews with Indian dementia caregivers.
  • Dementia caregiving in the news (India).
  • Books by Indians sharing dementia care experiences.
  • Persons with dementia share experiences.
  • Tips and advice from health care professionals and volunteers.
• Presentations with information on dementia and caregiving.
  • Introduction to dementia.
  • Simple explanation of dementia care.
  • What is the Difference between Dementia and Alzheimer’s?.
  • Orientation for attendants for dementia home care.
  • Dementia and Communication: Problems and suggestions.
  • Helping with Activities of Daily Living, an example.
  • Dementia and Wandering: Suggestions for families.
  • Dementia Awareness (Comprehensive).
  • General caregiving: Tips For Those New To Caregiving.
• Resources for dementia and care.
  • Dementia Caregiver Resources across India.
  • City-wise/ Region-wise Dementia Care Information.
    • Resources for dementia care: Ahmedabad (Gujarat).
    • Resources for dementia care: Bangalore (Bengaluru), Mysore (Mysooru), Mangalore, Kolar(Karnataka cities).
    • Resources for dementia care: Chennai, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu).
    • Resources for dementia care: Delhi/ NCR.
    • Resources for dementia care: Goa.
    • Resources for dementia care: Hyderabad, others (Andhra Pradesh, Telengana).
    • Resources for dementia care: Kerala cities.
    • Resources for dementia care: Kolkata , Siliguri(West Bengal).
    • Resources for dementia care: Assam (Guwahati), Manipur (Imphal), Mizoram (Aizawl) (North-Eastern States).
    • Resources for dementia care: Mumbai (Maharashtra).
    • Resources for dementia care: Pune (Maharashtra).
    • Resources for dementia care: Others (Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Darbhanga, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, Varanasi).
    • Multi-city service providers for senior care and dementia.
  • Informational websites and online support for dementia / caregiving (International).
  • Dementia Resources in Indian Languages.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Assamese.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Bengali.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Gujarati.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Hindi.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Kannada.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Konkani.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Malayalam.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Marathi.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Punjabi.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Tamil.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Telugu.
    • Dementia/ Alzheimer’s Resources in Urdu.
  • Books on dementia and care.
  • Indian movies depicting dementia.
  • Selected Online Videos.
• Contact Us.
  • Frequently asked questions about the site.
  • Contact information.
• Site Map for Dementia Care Notes.
• Search the site.
• Quicklinks for caregivers.
• Privacy Policy.

Additional resources: Gujarati page: ડિમેન્શિયા  : લક્ષણો અને  નિદાન (Gujarati: Dementia: Symptoms and Diagnosis)

Interviews on this site:

• The dementia diagnosis process, Part 4: Understanding the diagnosis and what comes next.
• The dementia diagnosis process, Part 3: Meeting the doctor and getting a diagnosis.
• The dementia diagnosis process, Part 2: Preparing for the doctor consultation.
• The dementia diagnosis process, Part 1: Getting started and selecting a doctor.
• Use “Active Ageing” to age better and reduce dementia risk: part 2.
• Use “Active Ageing” to age better and reduce dementia risk: part 1.
• Home care for late stage dementia, Part 6: Tube feeding and related decisions.
• Home care for late stage dementia, Part 5: Eating/ swallowing problems.
• Home care for late stage dementia, Part 4: Constipation, Catheter use, Dental Care, Improving the Quality of Life.
• Home care for late stage dementia, Part 3: Bruising, skin care, exercise, massage, bedsores.
• Home care for late stage dementia, Part 2: Getting medical advice and preparing for decline.
• Home care for late stage dementia, Part 1: Prepare for home care.
• Late-stage care, heartbreaks and tender moments, hospitals, dilemmas, decisions: a daughter narrates.
• When I see Ma struggle, I get very disturbed: a daughter-in-law describes the caregiving for a bedridden mother-in-law.
• Early warnings, diagnosis, medication, side-effects, an elderly father as caregiver: a daughter talks of her mother’s dementia.
• Dementia caregiving can create chaos: a solo caregiver describes challenges faced on multiple fronts.
• My mother is my top priority now: a daughter describes how she became an informed and empathetic caregiver.
• Keeping persons with dementia peaceful and improving their quality of life: practical tips from a nurse.
• She would simply hold on to me for support: a husband cares for a wife with dementia.
• A dementia caregiver shares her story and her caregiver wishlist.
• Long distance caregiving: a caregiver describes the challenges and her approach.
• Caregiving challenges, trained ayahs, depression: a caregiver’s story.
• A family recognizes dementia and adjusts for it: a social worker narrates her family’s story.
• She was only pretending to forget: A family in denial even after the patient’s death .
• Father thought I wanted to kill him: a daughter talks of her father’s dementia.
• Remote caregiving: an arrangement, and issues faced.
• Supporting the primary caregiver: Mistakes made, lessons learnt, tips shared.
• Our presence here makes a difference to her: a son talks of supporting his caregiver mother.
• When you are in the rut of things you can’t think: a doctor-caregiver shares.
• My husband is a living doll: A 78-year-old wife taking care of her 86-year-old husband.
• His condition affected every sphere of my life: a son talks of his father’s Alzheimer’s.
• Care in a dementia day care centre: a social worker explains.
• Conflicts in the family over dementia care.
• Taking dementia patients for outings: a volunteer shares his experience.
• Ekta Hattangady: Fifteen years old when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.