Are anxiety medications linked to Alzheimer’s?
Discover how certain medications may increase dementia risk and how aging changes drug processing. Learn alternative options from Áegis Living.
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Understanding and Managing Repetitive Behaviors in Dementia
Explore compassionate strategies to manage repetitive behaviors in loved ones with dementia. Learn how understanding and empathy can transform caregiving experiences.
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7 Signs It's Time for Long-Term Memory Care
Seven concrete signs - from medication mix-ups to wandering - that show when a loved one with memory loss needs long-term care.
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Making the Move to Memory Care: Guidance for Families
Get guidance for moving a loved one to memory care, from compassionate conversations and handling resistance to easing relocation stress and settling in.
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Routines: How Structure Supports People Living with Dementia
Learn how daily routines support people living with dementia, with practical tips and a sample schedule to encourage comfort, confidence, and connection.
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Understanding and Easing Sundowning in Dementia Care
Learn what sundowning is, why it happens, and how caregivers can respond with empathy and structure. Explore practical strategies and discover how Áegis Living supports residents through thoughtful approaches like light therapy.
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How to Talk to Someone With Dementia: A Caregiver's Guide
Expert-backed ways to talk with a loved one who has dementia, including Teepa Snow's VVT method, validation, and calm redirection.
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8 Conditions That Mimic Dementia (And Are Often Treatable)
Not all memory loss is dementia. Here are 8 treatable conditions that mimic dementia symptoms in older adults, and how to tell them apart.
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Beyond the Diagnosis: How Medications Can Help with Dementia Care
Explore how medications can support dementia care, including treatment options, potential benefits and risks, and the value of a coordinated care team.
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Could It Be Dementia? Cognitive, Behavioral, and Early Clues
Learn the early signs of dementia, from memory and thinking changes to shifts in mood and behavior, and how early recognition can help families plan care.
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The 7 Stages of Dementia: What to Expect at Each Step
A clear, stage-by-stage guide to how dementia progresses and how families can plan compassionate care at every step.
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Is It Just a Senior Moment - or Something More Like Dementia?
Learn how normal age-related forgetfulness differs from dementia, which warning signs to watch for, and when to talk with a doctor about memory changes.
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Meaningful Care Without Medication: Holistic Approaches to Dementia
Explore non-drug approaches to dementia care, from music and cognitive stimulation to movement and sensory activities that support comfort and connection.
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Protecting Your Brain: Lifestyle Changes That May Prevent Dementia
Explore lifestyle changes that may lower dementia risk, including exercise, brain-friendly foods, quality sleep, hearing care, and staying socially active.
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Understanding Alzheimer's: Signs, Stages, and Care Options
A clear guide to Alzheimer's disease: what it is, how it progresses, treatment options, and how to support a loved one at every stage.
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Understanding Dementia: A Family Guide to Types & Care
A clear, compassionate guide to what dementia is, how it's diagnosed, and the most common types families encounter.
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What Is Vascular Dementia? Causes, Symptoms & Care
Vascular dementia is caused by reduced blood flow to the brain. Learn symptoms, stages, treatment options, and how it differs from Alzheimer's.
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Learn how seasonal changes and daylight saving time can affect people with Alzheimer’s and discover supportive memory care tips from Aegis Living.
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Sundowning in Dementia: 4 Ways to Calm Evening Agitation
Sundowning triggers late-day confusion in people with dementia. Use these 4 caregiver strategies to ease evening agitation and restore calm.
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Caring for a parent with Alzheimer's related behavioral changes
Learn how to respond to Alzheimer’s behavior changes with calm, redirection, safety tips, and caregiver support from Aegis Living.
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Vascular Dementia: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
Vascular dementia is cognitive decline from reduced blood flow to the brain. Learn symptoms, causes, treatment, and when memory care helps.
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Understanding the Difference Between Alzheimer’s and Dementia
What is the difference between Alzheimers and dementia? Learn the key definitions, symptoms, and treatment plans in this guide from Áegis Living.
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What is Sundowning? And why does it occur?
Do you notice a significant change in your dad’s behavior close to dinnertime?
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Dementia Denial From the Experts
Caring for a family member with dementia is difficult. Not only do you grapple with the added responsibilities of monitoring another person’s life, but you also must come to terms with the idea that someone you love is going through a difficult change. It’s not uncommon for…
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8 Science-Backed Ways to Reduce Your Alzheimer's Risk
Eight evidence-based habits, from the MIND diet to sleep, exercise, and social connection, that can help lower your Alzheimer's risk.
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10 Early Signs of Dementia Families Notice First
The 10 early signs of dementia families notice first, plus expert guidance on when to see a doctor and plan next steps.
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Do’s and Don’ts for Visiting Your Loved One with Dementia
Visiting a loved one with dementia may present interesting challenges. Depending on what stage they are in their dementia diagnosis, a good day can be a joyful reminder of the loved one you’ve always known, while a bad day can be discouraging. It is important to visit a parent…
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Most Common Types of Dementia
Getting a call that a loved one has been diagnosed with dementia can be difficult and confusing. What does it mean? How will this affect their life? How can I help them? A great way to start is by understanding the diagnosis itself. For starters, did you know dementia isn’t a…
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Managing the Frustration of Dementia Caregiving
Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia can be challenging and overwhelming on the best of days.
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From Transitional Care to Memory Care
If your parent is showing mild or early signs of dementia, do they need to move into memory care?
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Early Signs of Dementia: 10 Symptoms Families Notice First
The earliest signs of dementia are subtle - repeated questions, missed bills, trouble following a recipe. Here's what to watch for and when to act.
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Does Alcohol Cause Dementia? What Families Should Know
Heavy drinking can trigger alcohol-related dementia in seniors. Learn the signs, diagnosis, and why early intervention often reverses symptoms.
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Dementia Whisperer: Transitional Trauma for Those with Dementia
What if you tucked yourself snuggly into your bed at night, only to be startled awake when you realize that you have woken up in a strange bed in an unfamiliar room?
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Dementia Whisperer: Denial, A Survival Mechanism
In denial, we find our comfortable place - where nothing is changing, and the alarm bells are silent.
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Memory Care: Finding Safe, Specialized Dementia Support
With senior housing demand skyrocketing, discover why professional memory care is a vital long-term care solution for parents with Alzheimer's.
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Managing Repetitive Behaviors in a Parent with Dementia
Caring for a parent with Alzheimer's? Learn why repetitive behavior happens in dementia and get 4 practical tips to help reduce caregiver stress.
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Áegis Living Brain Health Minute: Teepa Snow #1 of 3
Learn to spot early dementia signs and support brain health in part two of our series with Teepa Snow and Áegis Living. Discover crucial symptoms.
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Áegis Living Brain Health Minute with Teepa Snow #3 of 3
Improve senior care and your own brain health with part 3 of our series. Teepa Snow explains how to manage caregiver stress and avoid burnout.
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Sundowning: Tips for Managing Difficult Behavior in the Evening
You may be wondering, What is Sundowning?
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Holiday Travel for People with Dementia
Plan safe holiday travel with a loved one living with dementia. Discover 9 essential tips from Áegis Living for routine, pacing, and respite options.
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How to Encourage Healthy Eating in Dementia: 10 Tips
Manage dementia weight loss and improve nutrition. Explore 10 caregiver tips from Áegis Living to simplify meals and encourage healthy eating.
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Early Signs of Dementia
Has your Mom stopped baking for the holidays?
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The Benefits of a Daily Routine for People with Dementia
If you are a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, now may be a good time to create a daily routine for both you and your loved one. There are many benefits to creating a daily routine for both the caregiver and person with Alzheimer’s or…
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Meditation to Improve Brain Health
The main tenets of living a healthy lifestyle are repeated by physicians, in magazine articles, on television shows, and even by your mother: eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, and get plenty of sleep. But there is an additional tool to use in your quest for good health…
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How to Help a Parent with Dementia Dress Independently
Dressing supports dignity for a loved one with dementia. Use these clothing, closet, and cueing tips to make mornings calmer and more independent.
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Dementia: Keeping the season merry inspired by their spirit.
Many of us feel very nostalgic during the holiday season. We remember leaving cookies for Santa, unwrapping our first bike, making pies with mom, lighting the menorah, or waiting for the snow to fall. Many of us find our holidays firmly rooted in traditions and past memories…
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Dementia: 8 Tips for Celebrating the Holidays Together
The holidays can be stressful during the best of times, but layer on the responsibilities of caring for a loved with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia and your holiday season can be quickly overwhelming. Don’t lose the magic of the holiday season, but take some steps to…
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4 Ways to Support a Friend Whose Spouse has Dementia
The spouse of someone living with dementia is experiencing not only the pressure of caring for a loved one, but also their own personal loss and sadness. This profound change in their relationship can be difficult and overwhelming for the couple. Many caregiving spouses don’t…
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Caregiver’s guide to dementia communication
If you are caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, it is important to take the time to learn how to communicate effectively with them. Improving your communication skills can decrease the stress of caregiving. It can improve your relationship with your…
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Dementia Wandering: How to Prevent It and Keep Your Loved One Safe
Why people with dementia wander, how to secure your home, and the exact steps to take if your loved one goes missing.
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Planning for dementia care
When your loved one receives a diagnosis of dementia of any kind, life changes. While the disease itself will not progress to its latest stages immediately, your mind is probably racing. How will you care for your mother or father? What will he or she need as the condition…
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The powerful impact of music on memory care
As you search for the best community for your loved one who requires senior living or Alzheimer’s care, be sure to seek out memory care. Memory care involves many techniques that can keep your loved one happier and healthier. Even when our cognitive faculties begin to go, we…
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The link between Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease
Increasingly, researchers are finding a correlation between that what is good for the heart, is also good for the brain. Good blood flow to the grey matter is essential for the function and wellness of brain cells. With each heartbeat, about 25% of the blood is delivered to the…
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How socializing helps the brain function better
It’s well known that social interaction is key to cognitive development and function from a young age. However, staying socially active is also very important for seniors, as it may help slow down mental decline associated with dementia. Unfortunately, aging adults often find…
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Finding peace in Life’s Haven
At Áegis Living, one of the main goals is to improve the quality of life for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease. The core of each memory care community is the Life’s Neighborhood program, which was designed to increase enjoyment and enhance general mental, physical and emotional…
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‘Still Alice’ draws awareness to Alzheimer’s
Capturing the devastation of Alzheimer’s disease on film has proven to be a difficult task, but a movie new to the screen Jan. 16 has managed to portray this struggle with compassion and tenderness: “Still Alice.” Based on the novel by Lisa Genova, the movie stars Julianne…
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Infographic: Is Alzheimer’s Disease More Common in Males or Females?
Is Alzheimer’s disease more common in males or females?
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How Doctors and Specialists Test for and Diagnose Alzheimer's
From cognitive screens to PET scans and new blood biomarkers, here's how doctors test for Alzheimer's and what families should expect.
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Providing compassionate care to your parent with dementia
When a family is faced with a dementia or Alzheimer’s diagnosis, the news can become overwhelming and cause frustration
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The 7 Stages of Dementia: Symptoms & Timeline
A plain-English guide to the 7 stages of dementia - symptoms, duration, and what caregivers should plan for at each stage.
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Talking to your children about dementia
Dementia is a mental disease that is far-reaching and can affect the entire family, including children and grandchildren. For kids and teens, seeing their grandparents suffer from cognitive decline can be a confusing and upsetting experience. Although the senior affected by…
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Where to get dementia caregiver training and resources
Learning to take care of a parent experiencing dementia can be challenging, but there are several training programs and great resources
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What do I do when a parent is experiencing dementia?
It can be difficult to change your role from child to caregiver. For many individuals, living with a parent with dementia can be overwhelming and isolating at first; however, there are several tools available to support you along the way. If you work or have kids of your own…
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5 Signs of Dementia
Dementia is a condition that has become all too common for aging Americans.
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