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1.	Alzheimers>Alzheimers  WANDERING There are many reasons why an Alzheimer patient wanders or walks away from home or a well-known path or area. As a first step, try to determine the reasons behind wandering by asking these questions:MedicationSome medications have side effects that result in confusion and restlessness. Is the patient on such medication? If so, consult your physician.StressIs the person trying to handle stress, noise, unpleasant people, crowding, or isolation? If so, consider changing the situation.Time ConfusionDoes the person become confused at certain parts of the day, such as the middle of the nig ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimers ]
2.	Alzheimers>Wandering Alzheimer's Patient  Wandering Alzheimer's PatientDear Ageless Design,My father has Alzheimer's disease and has moved in with us. Recently he walked off and couldn't find his way home. What do you suggest? Wandering Dad Dear Wandering,Caring for a parent with Alzheimer's disease requires patience, planning and a great deal of love. Wandering is a very serious issue and is common with this disease. Since your father has already begun to wander we recommend registering him with both the Alzheimer's Association's Safe Return Program and Medic Alert.If he wanders off again, the Safe Return Program can help return him ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Wandering Alzheimer's Patient ]
3.	Alzheimers>Home Safety for People with Alzheimer's Disease  Introduction Caring for a person with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a challenge that calls upon the patience, creativity, knowledge, and skills of each caregiver. We hope that this booklet will help you cope with some of these challenges and develop creative solutions to increase the security and freedom of the person with AD in your home, as well as your own peace of mind. This booklet is for those who provide in-home care for people with AD or related disorders. Our goal is to improve home safety by identifying potential problems in the home and offering possible solutions to help prevent ac ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Home Safety for People with Alzheimer's Disease ]
4.	Alzheimers>Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders SAR Research  Introduction On a chilly October afternoon the Sheriff's office received an emergency call for a missing 94 year-old male who suffered from vascular dementia. EH was no stranger to the sheriff's office. This was the sixth occurrence of wandering away from his home. In one sense, he had created his own personal search database to help predict his location. Using this information, the sheriff's office quickly mounted a search by searching his house, sending out tracking dogs (bloodhounds), air-scent dogs, and ground teams. Three hours later EH was safely returned to his residence. A few days la ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders SAR Research ]
5.	Alzheimers>What are the stages of Alzheimers Disease  Alzheimer's Disease: Progressing through Three Stages In people with Alzheimer's disease, changes in the brain may begin 10 to 20 years before any visible signs or symptoms appear. Some regions of the brain may begin to shrink, resulting in memory loss, the first visible sign of Alzheimer's disease. Over time, Alzheimer's disease progresses through three main stages: mild, moderate, and severe. Because there is currently no way of looking inside a living brain to see the damage Alzheimer's disease causes, these stages are characterized by a collection of signs and symptoms and behaviors the pe ...  [ Read the GPS Article: What are the stages of Alzheimers Disease ]
6.	Alzheimers>Alzheimer's WANDERING  Wandering is a very serious behavior that persons with dementia may experience. This article will help you identify ways to limit wandering and to prevent an unfortunate situation. Wandering occurs in 6 out of 10 persons with dementia. If the person is not found within 24 hours, they have a 50% chance death or seriously injuring themselves. Wandering should be considered as a very serious behavior, which can occur by foot, car, or any other form of transportation. A person may wander for any reason; they may roam around the house or a store (they may find their way outside), feel the urge ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimer's WANDERING ]
7.	Alzheimers>Alzheimer's Disease Education  IntroductionCaring for a person with Alzheimer's disease (AD) at home is a difficult task and can become overwhelming at times. Each day brings new challenges as the caregiver copes with changing levels of ability and new patterns of behavior. Research has shown that caregivers themselves often are at increased risk for depression and illness, especially if they do not receive adequate support from family, friends, and the community. One of the biggest struggles caregivers face is dealing with the difficult behaviors of the person they are caring for. Dressing, bathing, eating--basic activitie ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimer's Disease Education ]
8.	Alzheimers>REDUCE WANDERING  1) Identify the person. There's no way to predict who will wander, or when or how it might happen. Use sew-on or iron-on labels or permanent markers to mark clothing. Register and have the person wear a Safe Return® identification bracelet or necklace, available from the Southeast Florida Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. 2) Be objective. Don't blame yourself for the person's wandering behavior.3) Secure the living area. Look in and around your home for potential hazards, including fences and gates, bodies of water, pools, dense foliage, bus stops, steep stairways, high balconies and ...  [ Read the GPS Article: REDUCE WANDERING ]
9.	Alzheimers>Alzheimers Treatment  What does it mean to modify the home environment?Research studies and anecdotal experience suggest that factors in the physical environment, such as lighting, color or noise, can greatly impact the behavior of a person with Alzheimer's. Making changes and adjustments to the home environment can help make day-to-day activities easier and safer for the person with Alzheimer's and can reduce specific symptoms, such as wandering. At first, changes may need only be simple adjustments, such as keeping often-used items in a certain place, labeling doors or drawers so the person can find things easily ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimers Treatment ]
10.	Alzheimers>Caring for a Person with Alzheimer’s Disease or Another Dementia  Research has fortunately provided us with much knowledge about how to care for a patient with Alzheimer's Disease or another progressive dementia. In this article, we offer tips for dealing with common behaviors such as wandering, hallucinating, aggressiveness, night wakefulness or sundowning, rummaging and hiding things, and not eating.You may consider all of the advice and suggestions here as applicable to a person with either Alzheimer's or another progressive dementia. Alzheimer's has a very bad prognosis, but not all dementias are irreversible or progressive. If the dementia patient has s ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Caring for a Person with Alzheimer’s Disease or Another Dementia ]
11.	Alzheimers>COPING WITH....WANDERING  This behavior includes attempting to leave, roaming, visiting and rummaging. To assure safety, individuals should be assessed to determine possible causes of these episodes, and treated with behavioral, medical or pharmacological interventions. Tips:Do not leave a person with dementia home alone. Monitor and record the individual's wandering patterns--frequency, duration, time of day, etc. For example, if wandering occurs first thing in the morning, they might be hungry; in the late afternoon or early evening, they might be experiencing "sundowning"; and during the night, they might need to us ...  [ Read the GPS Article: COPING WITH....WANDERING ]
12.	Alzheimers>Alzheimer's Wandering  WANDERING(The following article is a compilation of material from a number of sources. We thank the Alzheimer's Association Chapters and others who have contributed to it and encourage its duplication and use.)There are many reasons why an Alzheimer patient wanders or walks away from home or a well-known path or area. As a first step, try to determine the reasons behind wandering by asking these questions: Medication: Some medications have side effects that result in confusion and restlessness. Is the patient on such medication? If so, consult your physician.Stress: Is the person trying to han ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimer's Wandering ]
13.	Alzheimers>Challenging Alzheimers Behaviors for the Caregiver  Here are some ideas and suggestions for keeping a wandering person safe and for being prepared if wandering occurs. Be sure the person with Alzheimer's disease (AD) gets plenty of exercise. Invest in warm boots, waterproof coats, sun hats, and other protective clothing for both the person with AD and the accompanying walker. Through regular exercise, you may be able to avoid restlessness and possible agitation. In inclement weather, use the enclosed shopping malls for your exercise. Use a bean bag chair, recliner chair, or geriatric chair, for the AD person. It is comfortable and yet restricti ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Challenging Alzheimers Behaviors for the Caregiver ]
14.	Electronic Monitoring Programs>Location tracking -- for people, products, places -- is fast coming into its own  In one operating room at Massachusetts General Hospital, doctors and nurses wear radio tags that register their comings and goings on a 42-inch television screen so other members of the medical team know who is attending the surgery at any given moment.At an old-soldiers home in King, Wis., elderly residents who are at risk of wandering off carry a small wireless beacon that signals their location within a residential facility, and triggers an audio alert over the public address system when one gets close to a potentially risky area, such as a stairwell.At the Illinois Institute of Technology, ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Location tracking -- for people, products, places -- is fast coming into its own ]
15.	Alzheimers>Elderly wanderers endanger themselves, devastate families  Helen Sandon hailed a cab in a forlorn attempt to find a husband who has been dead a decade. She died alone at the bottom of a Willowick cliff, where she wandered looking for that long-gone love. Lloyd Immke walked away on a sunny day in Mentor a month ago, and the 78-year-old Pepper Pike man is still missing. They are called wanderers: people, usually older folks with dementia or Alzheimer's disease, who walk away, in some cases forever. Local experts say families should take steps to keep people from wandering away. Sandon and Immke are among 125,000 elderly who were reported missing within ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Elderly wanderers endanger themselves, devastate families ]
16.	Alzheimers>Alzheimer's Wandering  SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- When Alzheimer's caused Alice Yee's mother to start wandering from home, the lab where Yee worked as a microbiologist allowed her to start work later in the morning and adjust her weekend shifts."Everything I asked, they said OK," Yee said. "I was just astonished that they bent over backwards for me."But when Gonzalo Monterrojas tried to balance his job as a flooring company manager with taking care of his elderly aunt, the Roseville, Calif., resident found it so stressful he quit to find a new career."I was getting chest pains because of the stress. It was awful," Monter ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimer's Wandering ]
17.	Alzheimers>Alzheimer's Wandering  POMPANO BEACH, Fla. An 85-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease who wandered away from her Florida home was found raped and shot.A Broward County sheriff's spokesman says the attack occurred less than an hour after the woman was reported missing. The woman has undergone surgery and is recovering. Authorities say she does not remember the attack. A deputy patrolling outside a nearby jail discovered the woman lying on the sidewalk. She was fully clothed but had a broken leg and a gunshot wound in her pelvic area. A hospital exam showed evidence of a sexual assault. The sheriff's office spok ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimer's Wandering ]
18.	Alzheimers>Alzheimer's Wandering  If Lloyd Immke were home, he would likely be raking up the first fallen leaves, mowing the lawn or accompanying his daughter to her physical therapy sessions.Instead, the 78-year-old's wife, Rose, and daughter Joyce sit wondering where he is, whether he has eaten and where he has been sleeping at night. Immke, of Pepper Pike, disappeared Sept. 6 from his daughter Joyce Bahleda's home on LaSalle Lane in Mentor and remains missing.Immke was last seen on Sept. 6 walking south on Heisley Road toward Mentor Avenue after he left the home while his wife and daughter were upstairs in the bedroom. Poli ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimer's Wandering ]
19.	Alzheimers>Alzheimer's Wandering  Since 2001, the Pilot Club of Knoxville has promoted the BrainMinders program for Knox County kindergarten students. The purpose of the presentation is to inform the children of safety measures to help prevent brain-related injuries that might occur at home, school and on the playground. Pilot Club members use puppets to illustrate a story about an owl and his buddies. At the same time, the children are learning about helmet, traffic and seat-belt safety. In September, two teams of volunteers presented the program to nine kindergarten classes (185 students) at A.L. Lotts Elementary School, acc ...  [ Read the GPS Article: Alzheimer's Wandering ]