Challenges Families Face
Struggles that Geriatric Caregivers Deal With Families and caregivers face many challenges when dealing with a loved one who has Alzheimer’s/dementia. People do not realize that they are suffering just as much as their loved one. The feelings of fear, anger,...
Dementia Myth No. 3: “Just Give Him a Sleeping Pill. Or a Tranquilizer.”
Almost nothing in my practice drives me more nuts than the relaxed attitude both our society and our medical establishment have toward prescribing sleeping pills and tranquilizers to elders, especially to elders with dementia. As I travel around the San Francisco Bay...