Dementia Home Care

How to Prepare Before, During, and After

By: Tracy Cram Perkins

Narrated by: Erin Grassie

Dementia caregivers cope with repetitive questions, mood swings, lost personal space, and live with exhaustion, frustration, and anger. You may not know how to prepare.

Dementia Home Care: How to Prepare Before, During, and After by Tracy Cram Perkins covers:

• Life hacks like camouflaging doors to prevent wandering, or mom bags for life's little emergencies and what to stock in it for road trips
• Distraction Techniques--Nursery Rhymes, warm blankets, food Hoarding--
• Thinning collections during sleep periods, removing trash completely from premises, canceling subscriptions, blocking shopping channels
• Information needed by emergency medical personnel--what is needed on a medication list, and list of physical ailments
• Working with your Pharmacist--drug interaction checks
• Memory Aids--memory boards, memory books, flash cards
• Powers of Attorney--Power of Attorney Health Care, Durable Power of Attorney
• Death--Contacting the Credit Bureaus to add a Death Watch when a family member dies, reporting a death to Social Security, obtaining death certificates
• Distinguishing the difference between a hallucination and
• The empty-nester experience after the loss of a loved one--to a nursing facility or to death

These are a few of the skills and tips covered in Dementia Home Care. While these tools will not stop dementia, they may ease your pain--and these skills can be taught to anyone. Whether you listen to it in its entirety or skip around, Dementia Home Care will help you maintain your humor and your emotional connection with your loved one longer.

The purpose of Dementia Home Care is to help you look back with pride and joy.

This audiobook is skillfully read by Erin Grassie, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Allie McSwain.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Tracy Cram Perkins (P)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Perfect Gift for Everyone in the Family

When my own dad AND my father-in-law were both diagnosed with dementia, I didn't want to deal with a medical book and all of the jargon doctors use, but I really needed to know what to expect. I wanted something I would actually understand 100%. This book was so helpful, I gave copies to my siblings, my mother-in-law, and kept one hard copy for myself. I listened to the Audible version first, and realized this was exactly what our family needed! Then I started buying copies as gifts for family members. If someone in your family is dealing with dementia, everyone in the family needs this book, to help them be the support that will be necessary to get through it.

Waste of money

It was a silly dumb book. Even the voice was annoying. Don’t wast your money