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Treatment for Alzheimer's disease
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Residential care :
Arranging residential care
Becoming a resident
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Wandering
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Money
Self care
Respect
Living with change
Complicated emotions
End of life
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Carers of people with dementia
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Men caring for partners
Interview 33
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His wife developed multi-infarct dementia. He cared for her at home for about 6 years. When she went into residential care it took a ...
Interview 36
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Husband looked after her at home for several years. Medication upset her causing her to see colours when she closed her eyes. When things got ...
Interview 45
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Symptoms began just before moving from long term family home to smaller house. Initially cared for at home with carers coming to the house, attended ...
Interview 46
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When brain scan was found to be normal was admitted for a week's assessment. Diagnosed as having Pick's disease (fronto-temporal dementia) Cared ...
Interview 40
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Gradual onset. Cared for at home for several years with support from daughter and local authority carers. Attended day centre. Sometimes husband would stay too. ...
Interview 44
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She was 86 when she started to have symptoms of dementia. Her doctor mistook it for old age. Prescribed Aricept but husband felt it had ...
Interview 60
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He was able to care for her in their own home until a very short time before she died. She went into residential care for ...
Interview 02
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Her mental and physical condition has deteriorated steadily since she herself first recognized she had a problem in 1991. She can now no longer talk ...
Interview 07
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Gradual onset mistaken for depression. Diagnosis given jointly to husband and wife. Slow progression. Problem with restlessness and wandering. Very involved with the local Alzheimers ...
Interview 08
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He felt he had to fight to get the care she needed when she needed it. Indignant that medication was refused on grounds of cost ...
Interview 31
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He gave up work to be a full time carer but when she took to her bed for several months it was decided that she ...
Interview 38
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Cared for at home with help of friends, relatives and neighbours while carer worked part time. Treated with Aricept and Rivastigmine. Admitted for respite care ...
Interview 50
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Developed symptoms in her sixties and guessed herself what it was. Dementia progressed but Alzheimers was never actually confirmed. Separation difficulties with day care but ...
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