Assisted living Communities for Alzheimer's Patients are built to provide a semi-structured environment. These communities involve nursing homes, nursing home programs, and special units.
It is important for AD patients to stay in assisted living communities because in these places they can live within a group, where they can be accepted and cared for. These assisted living communities are usually within nursing homes.
These nursing homes have their own medical practitioners, most especially caregivers for AD patients who are in old age. Within the facilities, daily meals and other needs of patients are prepared and the staffs are the ones responsible in providing residents with daily activities.
In living communities, there must be interactions within groups. These interactions are facilitated in order to maintain the social aspect of patients. Staffs provide programs and activities to help patients deal with others, just like they are living in a normal life.
AD patients need constant care and understanding to remain safe in the environment, and most of the families cannot commit in giving total care for these patients, thus many nursing homes, special units for elderly, and nursing facilities that have been built.
Living arrangement for them vary based on the stage of their disease. If they cannot do activities of daily living and they often need assistance especially when they move, total care is really needed because this means that the disease already progress. The caring process is provided by their caregivers specifically for patients' with Alzheimer's. They should be trained first to be aware on the different aspects of caring.
Patients with late stage Alzheimer's are then moved into a nursing facility for full-time care. Fortunately, there are assisted living communities for Alzheimer's patients that offer continuous care all throughout the stages of Alzheimer's disease.
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