The Dementia Caregiver's Toolbox

Dementia Care Meets Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) - Part 1

As caregivers, we are always looking for new non-pharmacological approaches to dementia care.  CAM, which is an abbreviation for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, offers many of us some potential alternatives for assisting and comforting the person with dementia.  Using CAM techniques is a perfect example of relooking at a collection of modalities that have been around for centuries and making them new again.  But what are CAM techniques?

Dementia Feeding Abilities and Cuing

Meal time can be very challenging for dementia caregivers as they try to balance giving the person with dementia  as much independence in eating as possible and ensuring that eating occurs.  The process of eating and feeding oneself is a complicated process that breaks down into a number of tasks that need to be done in a certain order to achieve success.