Adult Caregiving Digest - 9/9/11

September 10, 2011

Naperville, Illinois - September 9, 2011  Issue

 

Alzheimer's Burden Climbs


 "There are time and training limitations in this field," says Alzheimer's expert Zoran Grujic, director of the Memory Assessment Program at Central DuPage Hospital's Neurosciences Institute, in Winfield, Ill. He says appointments with dementia patients are usually focused on their many medical issues, other diseases they might have and medications. "It's easy to write a prescription," Grujic says. But caregivers take the patient home, and then what? How do they manage a patient's behavior and take care of their own health? "The problem needs 

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Private Struggles of Caregivers

The only child in a close and loving family, Mary Lenart remembers spirited shopping excursions with her mother, endless and effortless conversations and unstinting support.

“Our family always had the gift of communication. Problems were always talked out,” Lenart recalled.

Today, her mother Genevieve Lenart, 81, sits silently, unable to take part in any conversation, robbed of language skills, a nine- year victim of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Study-Caregiver Profiles @ End of Life of Dementia Patients

The purpose of this study was to investigate how caregivers respond to the end stages of dementia with the assistance from hospice. 

Four distinct caregiver portraits emerged:

(a) disengaged – conflicted relationship with patient 

(b) questioning – struggled to understand the dementia 

(c) all-consumed- concerned themselves with every detail of  care 

(d) reconciled – relieved, ready and prepared for death
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Speedy Care for Heart Attacks in Local Hospitals

 
A heart attack is a true medical emergency, where every 20- to 30-minute delay could affect whether a patient lives or dies,” said Dr. Peter Kerwin, medical director of the cardiac catheterization program at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove. “STEMIs are considered the most critical type of heart attack but if the hospital is prepared they can be quickly recognized and treated to reduce heart damage.”

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