If your parent has been diagnosed with dementia, they may feel fine at the present moment. This is because the beginning stage is not as difficult to deal with. At the end of the beginning stage, you will start to see changes as your parent moves on to the next stage. At this point, it will come time to decide if you want your parent to live in a nursing home facility or keep them at home. If you would rather keep them home, keep reading for information that you will find helpful.

Inspect Their Home

Walk through your parent's home and inspect it closely. You need to remove everything that could cause your parent to fall. You will likely see things that you never noticed before. This may be rugs on the hardwood floor your parent may slip on.

Make sure there are locks on all exterior doors and that the locks work. Over time, you will need to put deadbolt locks or types of locks that will prevent your parent from opening the door. This is because they may try to escape from your home at night. 

You may want to install a security system in their home if they do not have one already. There are systems that you can have installed that will allow you to monitor your parent from your home. This way you will know if something requires your assistance.

Hire Home Care

Once your parent progresses in this disease, they will become much worse and will require a lot of care. This may be in the form of 24-hour care or just some extra assistance. Once they get to the point where they can no longer take care of themselves, it will be a good time to hire home care.

There are home care aides that can come a few times a week to check on your parent. You can also hire 24-hour home care. With this, the care aide will live in your parents' home full-time. This will ensure they are well taken care of and will prevent you from having to do this work. Many people find this difficult as they have a job and their own family to care for. 

Home care aides can help with personal needs but can also help in many other ways. For example, they can take your parent on errands, pick up medications from the pharmacy, cook their meals, and clean the home.

You can find a service in your area that offers home care aides for people. These services can be helpful as they will have already done all the work involved in doing background checks and checking references.

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