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Cost of memory care for an Alzheimer's patient
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Never knew to ask those questions. Hope the caregivers in my husband's Memory Care facility are educated. He is going to need a lot of help. He gets lost in our 3-bedroom home and he often asks me how to get to the bathroom.
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A few ideas that may help:
Going in often and making friends with the caregivers increases the chance that your husband will get good care. Learn their names and watch how they interact with him. Praise the approaches that you like and gently but specifically share what actions or approaches can make them more successful when helping your husband.
Write up a one pager on your husband and post it there for the caregivers, or leave a stack of copies of it for them. (Use Google Translate to translate it if the staff have one or two other native languages.) What he did for work and fun and things about your family. This makes him a fuller person to them and gives them things to reference about him when interacting or trying to select engagement activities.
Learn their processes. For example I learned that they tracked every check that they did and every bowel movement. When he started having digestive issues, this helped understand what changes worked.
See what caregiving changes might be needed because he is there. For example, the change may make him hesitant to ask about the bathroom. Maybe they need to check in with him every 2 hours to avoid distress.