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How do you care for a person whose been diagnosed with alzheimer's disease?
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Tender loving care!: Pt's actual condition when you start caring for them.-may need to dress, feed, bathe; tend to pt's toilet.It depend on how far along with the disease the patient is?-pt eventually will have problems in all these areas.Some pt's are slower to develop advanced disease then others. Be careful about balance ; possibility of falling.- speak with patients physician.- again i repeat "tender loving care".
Answered 1/19/2014
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