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How to respond to wandering in dementia: Keep your loved one safe
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 7. 08. 2024
- Welcome to the place where I share dementia tips, strategies, and information for family members caring for a loved one with any type of dementia (such as Alzheimer's disease, Lewy Body dementia, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, etc.)
Today's video talks about how to reduce wandering in your loved one with dementia (i.e., Alzheimer's disease, Lewy Body dementia, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, etc.).
Caring for a loved one with dementia is hard, especially because there are so many difficult behaviors that can happen. If your loved one has tried to wander away from home, then you know how scary this can be. Be prepared with ways to help reduce your loved one from leaving home.
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In case you havenât met me, my name is Natali Edmonds and I am a board certified geropsychologist. That means that I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with older adults. One day, while hiking a trail, I came up with the idea for Careblazers and I decided to see if posting videos online could provide help to the many other Careblazers in the world who donât get to have help come directly to them in their homes. I hope that this work helps you in some way on your caregiving journey.
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Yes I learned so many useful things. Thank you sooo sooo much for making these wonderful videos. I love your channel. You definitely deserve more views and subscribers.
do you have videos on how to secure weapons in a home with a person that has dementia
I learned.
I am doing a class on dementia as part of my course and I can honestly say your videos have been SO helpful for me to fully understand dementia, thank you
You are my life line. Caring for mother with alzheimer and husband post-stroke.
Definitely, I would like to see a segment on benign appearing alarm systems.
My elder is vision impaired due to a stroke. The doctors say he can see just fine but his brain does not process what he sees correctly. That confirmed what I noticed about him. It's called mental blindness. The best way to describe it is that he sees just fine subconsciously. But if he actively tries to see, he can't. Anyway he is ravenous. He wants to eat all day and night every two hours. If I give him big meals he doesn't eat all of it. If I give him regular meals it's not enough. I try to tweek the meals just right but it's never consistent how much he will eat or what he will eat one day but swear he doesn't eat the next day. My first problem is that I struggle to keep up on food in the house. And I have a pretty big pantry. I don't know where he puts all the food because he's so very thin. Anyway, he is restless and his body is always ridged. It's like he's never relaxed. Even when he wants to sleep he struggles to relax enough to sleep. Once is sleeping, it's like he's fighting resting. So he's never calm of still. I think that's where he burns all his calories. He's pretty quiet, but he does grunt all day and some of the night. Not especially loudly but it does wear on me. He also mutters to him self the same phrases over and over. He's been known to get up in the middle of the night and look for food. Usually he comes up empty handed and just eats ice from the fridge. After this last hospital stay, he's been different. He's been eating everything, cough syrup, pouring salt in his mouth, trying to eat insulin, eating raw garlic from the pack complete with skin on. Eating whole packs of bread. Anything he can reach. So we now have to lock up everything in containers and I mean everything, in boxes, jars, and bottles. This is not limited to food items. Problem is, we have a small home, with a bug pantry but other wise limited storage space, no basement, no garage, shed full of lawn care items. So we tried putting things high up because he has trouble reaching over his head since the stroke. Didn't work. We tried hiding things in the back of the fridge or behind things. Didnt work. Because he only does this at night. We tried keeping the house really dark at night sho he couldn't see. Didnt work. After the insulin scare, Now we have to child proof everything. We have to throw away things we need in favor of storing food in places that can be locked. Activities to keep him busy does not work, he doesn't like anything. He's negative about everything and everybody, including himself. He does the opposite of anything asked of him. He fights any attempt towards self improvement or doing anything, yet he is excessively bored. He's also vindictive. He remembers offenses but not kindnesses. He's not overall mean, he's just centralized. Like everything is from him, for him, or done to him. He knows other people exist but he only has the capacity to have awareness for himself. It's like he knows there are other people with him but he does not understand that those people exist outside of his existence (if that makes since). Like an infant doesn't understand that just because he/she can't see the adult, that doesn't mean that they are not still close by. Well he understands that there are other people in the house somewhere but unless he has a need, they don't exist. It's like we are just an extension of him, not individuals. Anyway I'm not expecting anyone to ever read this. It's just an outlet, that oddly enough helped me.
Did you get external help to care for him? That sounds exhausting and life-sucking. It's hard not to become a ghost when dealing with such advance type of care.
@@ApparentlyGoogledislikesmyname No, he passed away after getting his vaccine in 2021.
Thanks Natalie for this info.. my Dad has recently begun wandering.. you have provided necessary tips to managing this issue..
I'm glad the video has helped. I certainly hope it keeps your dad safe from wandering.
Great suggestions!!!â€
We have an indoor key-lock so I can lock it and hide the key. No way she can get out. The only other door is out to the garage, and it beeps if it opens, which has been super helpful. My mom only started wandering a little in the last 2 weeks or so, and let me tell you, it is beyond scary for everyone. Thank you so much for this video.
You're welcome, Glad it helped!
Oh my goodness, dear friend- My mother Is beginning to wander just in the house
Thank-you!!
Wandering is a true nightmare / I watched this video a little to late but Thank you ! Maybe you can do one with GPS tracker
Thank you for this helpful video! Is there a type of door alarm that will make sound in a different room? My brother sleeps upstairs and probably wouldn't hear if my mom, who has dementia, set off a small door alarm. Is there an alarm that will make sounds in different locations? Thank you!
My wife placed myself into a local aged care home; respite care. Generally I have wrist watch alarms, at home or outdoors.
The nursing home etc can phone my wrist alarm, and talk to me directly,
Some smart alarms and smart watches have inbuilt GPS, so we wanderers can be GPS located. At the aged care home, there were many people ahead of behind my level of health deterioration.
Most of the residents and myself have established patterns and habits. Some know these very well.
My wife started 'wandering' if you will when we first moved to a new area that she grew near. Prior to finding she had dementia she believed she was single and met up with a male. For some reason I thought to ask her are you seeing someone. Next day she said yes and after eighteen months I found she has LBD.
I'm so sorry. Like many family members, it's only after quite a lot of time and after some strange behaviors does the diagnosis get discovered. Just know that it was the disease.
My Aunt is in a Secured Dementia wing of a Elderly Care Hospital she's always rambling on in her fantasy dementia mixed up world Lately she wanders off for no apparent reason l stopped her the 1st time about 3 weeks ago by since then she's got worse She can't have a conversation with anyone hoping to find the answer here on this channel Been thinking whether it's worth while visiting her because we are in different worlds
What would you recommend as far as a personal tracker for my sister? She won't wear any brackets or first alert necklaces. I could put something on her sneaker if she wasn't aware of it or on her walker. Any suggestions?
I didn't realize a Silver Alert was for dimentia wanderers specifically driving cars.
It can be for other people with any developmental or cognitive condition as well that đ
Natalie, your videos are amazing. My mother with dementia, post surgery and UTI has been sundowning and wandering in skilled nursing. I personally witnessed textbook sundowning. What is the patient perspective on it? My mom claimed she tried to exit to go home (in same facility) to get something or to get fresh air. Yet, she attempted several times without the cognition that this was not going to be successful for her or any understanding of the inappropriateness. Last winter, she experienced blacked out wandering while mismanaging sleep medication she is no longer on, before a mild dementia diagnosis. She is living independently. Trying to figure out if these are 2 isolated incidents with different causes or if there is a continued pattern that we might be missing.
My mother did similar things. Hoping to keep her off lorazepam. She also had a black out driving accident. Very scary. She moving to independent living. Hoping she'll get more meals. More exercise and socializing. Hoping she won't have repeat of blackout/possible wandering. Hard to see and understand.
My Mother in-law wanders quite often, we have done all these things like the bell on the door but she still wanders, today she was missing, my father in-law who is blind called my husband to find her and she had gone into the woods, she has also walked into the neighbors place where the dogs are kept, one of them is a pitbull, we are at our wits end trying to find out how to keep her safe. My father in law says there is nothing wrong with her so he will NOT accept any help
Jeez, that's really difficult. I hope you were able to find a solution.