ADA Memo Launched To Help Persons With Dementia And Caregivers During COVID-19
In order to help people living with dementia and their families, especially during the Circuit Breaker period, ADA collaborated with the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) and worked with enforcement authorities on how to create awareness of dementia, and how to render the appropriate assistance should someone with dementia unintentionally break the Circuit Breaker rules.
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COVID-19: Three Ways the ADA Memo Can Help You During Circuit Breaker
To help your loved one with dementia in case he/she gets approached by enforcement officers for unintentionally flouting the measures, you can apply for the ADA Memo.
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COVID-19: The Importance Of Hand Washing To Lower Your Risk
With Circuit Breaker measures in place, most of us will be staying at home more, leaving the house only for essential services. Even so, it pays to be cautious and observe stringent hand hygiene in order to reduce your risk of catching and transmitting COVID-19.
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SPOC-19: A New Initiative To Support The Dementia Community During Circuit Breaker
The Alzheimer’s Disease Association (ADA) and Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) have collaborated to bring a new initiative that offers assistance to persons living with dementia and their caregivers who may inadvertently violate COVID-19 safety measures due to their condition.
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COVID-19: Journey with the Arts & Dementia (JADe) goes Digital!
During this COVID-19 pandemic, are your loved ones with dementia getting restless from #StayHome exercises, word search, and sudoku puzzles at home? If you have run out of ideas, consider tapping on ADA’s Journey with the Arts & Dementia (JADe) digital resources as reminiscence activities and conversation starters.
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COVID-19: Convincing Seniors To Stay Home
With the circuit breaker in place, it can be hard to explain to your loved ones why they can’t go out when it isn’t essential, especially if the daily trips are part of their regular routine. Unfortunately, this is a challenge that has to be tackled.
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COVID-19: Keeping Your Home Safer for Persons with Dementia
Keeping your home environment clean and safe for your loved ones with dementia is important enough in normal times, but is especially essential as we fight the spread of COVID-19.
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Building An Inclusive, Dementia-friendly Kebun Baru
In building dementia friendly communities (DFCs), there has been an international shift towards including the voices and perspectives of persons with dementia, known as the asset-based approach.
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Talking About COVID-19 With Persons With Dementia
The circumstances that have come to be as a result of COVID-19 are extraordinary indeed, and explaining the situation to our loved ones with dementia can be difficult. Follow these tips to keep from overloading your loved one with information, while keeping them in the know.
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Words Hurt: The Impact Of Words
The way we talk about dementia and people living with dementia affects how others view the condition. But why?
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Technology To Help With Dementia Care
Using the technologies available to us today, the dementia care experience can be made slightly easier for the person with dementia and their caregivers alike.
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Words Hurt
Hurt can take many different forms; it’s more than physical pain. Words, especially, have the power to hurt, and the scars that result aren’t just skin deep.
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