Yvonne,
There is a big problem today especially in many of these homes that are caring for your love ones with Alzheimer's,I see it first hand over and over, my mother was in the same condition so we had to take care of her ourselves, then traveling to many countries I saw many individuals who have Alzheimer's/Dementia living on the street homeless and some are put in homes for the insane, crazy and beaten sometimes by the guards. We at MARY JOSEPH FOUNDATION remove individuals who have Alzheimer's/Dementia from the street and homes for the insane, crazy and others bad places especially in the third world counties and take care of them like our own family. Yvonne it is ashame that these things happen to our love ones because we just want the best for our love ones, but in the mean time try talking to the head of the facility about feeding times and turning times for you love one.
Remember no one should ever go through this alone Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's disease bring you right down to nothing, it destroy you.
Thank you Yvonne for your email
Joan White, Director of care.
Mary Joseph Foundation feed, give vitamins, medicines, caring and rooming to individuals who have Alzheimer's/Dementia.
We continue to build homes and help individuals who have Alzheimer's disease.
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Thanks for the great information on care. My dad has Alzheimer's. Great care is essential.
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This blog does not like me I have tried to post 3 times and so this will be short. Please go to my blog and read the front page. I am researching an ethics question: Is it ethical to perform life-prolonging procedures on a patient with alzheimer's disease that has 1) no POA or family, 2) not made wishes otherwise known, &3) is cognitively incapable of making their wishes known now? Think ethically not legally. Is it cruel to take a dementia patient out of familiarity and perform surgery, and insert a G-Tube, which he doesn't understand and frequently pulls out, painfully, and which limits his mobility but which sustains and nourishes him or do you let the person who doesn't eat, essentially 'starve?' but in familiar surroundings with the comfort of a routine? please help me with case studies, personal experiences or resource ideas. thanks, hopefully i can get this one to post!
Yea! I figured out how to post! In addition to the sloppy entry above, I would like to point out: Consider CPR; do you fracture ribs attempting to rescuscitate a dementia resident for more years of difficult living because the law says you should? Or do you let the person having a stroke or heart attack just lie there and die? Do you perform a colostomy on the patient who is 6 years into alzheimer's but was just recently diagnosed with colon cancer. Worse yet, what about chemo or radiation? Our attitudes have adjusted to accept that individuals should make their own decisions about whether they want to suffer and fight cancer to live or to let nature take it's course and not suffer through chemo and radiation burns. This was not necessarily the attitude a couple of decades ago. It was more socially acceptable to fight no matter what however now it is a given that there is a choice. Well, who can make the choice for those with long term cognitive impairment? There should be a different way to be figured out to meet the needs of those afflicted with this relatively new disease. What do you think?
Dear readers,
The Mary Joseph Foundation are very careful not to give our own opinions when it come to Alzheimer's disease...The foundation follows the laws and rules as they applies in each country, which means giving loving care to all who are sick with this disease we call Alzheimer's.
Julianne, we thank you for your comments on this matter, please read our topic on the legal and ethical problem with caregivers in the family.
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