Alzheimer's care
Memory-loss assistance services
Alzheimer's care is the specialized support and supervision provided to people with Alzheimer's disease, a progressive condition that destroys memory and cognitive function.
It encompasses everything from early-stage assistance with daily tasks to round-the-clock nursing in late stages: The family hired an aide for Alzheimer's care, memory care facilities specialize in Alzheimer's care.
The term covers both professional services and the often exhausting work done by family caregivers.
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- forgettingFailing to retain memories
- patienceCalm during delays
- nursingMedical caretaking profession
confusion · wandering · wandering off · sundowning · dignity · bathing · feeding · gentle · exhaustion · love · holding on · grief · lucid · moment of clarity · familiar · familiar face · routine · safety
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric nurse, geriatric medicine, assisted living
- nursing homesresidents, nurses, CNAs, LPNs, nursing staff
- senior housingsenior housing, senior living, senior residence, senior residences, retirement community
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- neurologybrain, neuron, neurons, synapse, synapses
Alzheimer's carepediatric care
Medical services for children
early childhood development · infant care · neonatal care · prenatal care · newborn care
Alzheimer's carepreventive medicine
Healthcare before illness strikes
disease prevention · health maintenance · acute care · early intervention · disease eradication
Alzheimer's, care, cares, cared, caring, carer, carers, careful, carefully