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Practical Strategies to Handle Difficult Moments with Patience and Understanding
Crisis & Safety Managment
Learn how to manage crises while keeping yourself and your loved one safe
Physical Aggression
De-escalation techniques, personal safety strategies, when to call for help, and how to protect yourself while keeping your loved one calm.
Verbal Threats & Hostility
Respond to threatening language, cursing, and verbal attacks without escalating. Understand when threats are dementia symptoms vs. actual danger.
Throwing or Breaking Things
Manage destructive behaviors, protect valuables, and redirect the energy behind aggressive actions into safer outlets.
Self-Harm or Dangerous Actions
When they're a danger to themselves - pulling at medical devices, refusing to eat, or engaging in risky behaviors.
Complete Meltdown or Panic
Extreme emotional outbursts, inconsolable crying, or complete breakdown. Immediate calming techniques and crisis intervention.
Calling Police or "Strangers"
When they call 911 on you or believe family members are intruders. How to handle authorities and explain dementia behaviors.
Emotional & Psychological Behaviors
Learn how to manage your loved one's emotional & psychological behaviors
False Accusations & Paranoia
"You're stealing from me!" "You're not my daughter!" Handle hurtful accusations with compassion while protecting your own emotional health.
Constant "Going Home" Requests
When home doesn't feel like home. Understand the emotional need behind this request and gentle redirection techniques.
Excessive Crying or Depression
Distinguish between grief, depression, and dementia-related emotional changes. When sadness needs professional intervention.
Anxiety & Constant Worry
Persistent fears, safety concerns, and catastrophic thinking. Calming techniques and security strategies that actually work.
Personality Changes & Loss of Filter
When sweet mom becomes mean, or quiet dad starts making inappropriate comments. Understanding brain changes and social management.
Obsessive or Repetitive Behaviors
Collecting items, repetitive actions, or fixating on specific tasks. When to redirect and when to allow harmless repetition.
Communication & Social Behaviors
Learn how to manage communication & social behaviors
Repetitive Questions & Stories
The same question 50 times a day. Patience strategies, memory aids, and understanding the emotional need behind repetition.
Inappropriate Social Behavior
Public undressing, inappropriate comments to strangers, or loss of social awareness. Damage control and prevention strategies.
Refusing Help
"I can do it myself!" when they clearly can't. Balancing safety with dignity and autonomy preservation techniques.
Withdrawal & Social Isolatin
When they stop talking, participating, or interacting. Gentle engagement strategies and when isolation is concerning.
Arguing & Confrontational Behavior
What to do when every conversation becomes a fight. De-escalation techniques and avoiding power struggles that nobody wins.
Language Loss & Communication Frustration
When words fail them and frustration builds. Alternative communication methods and reducing communication-related agitation.
Movement & Physical Challenges
How to handle your loved one's movement & physical challenges
Wandering & Exit-Seeking
Trying to leave home, getting lost in familiar places, or compulsive walking. Safety strategies and redirection techniques.
Restlessness & Pacing
What to do with constant motion, inability to sit still, or repetitive physical movements. Channeling energy into positive activities.
Rummaging & Searching Behaviors
Going through drawers, cabinets, or other people's belongings. Creating safe spaces for exploration and investigation
Hoarding & Collecting Items
Saving trash, hiding objects, or collecting specific items obsessively. When to allow and when to intervene safely.
Resistance to Physical Activity
Refusing to walk, exercise, or move when mobility is important for health. Motivation and engagement strategies.
Inappropriate Physical Actions
Touching strangers, removing clothes in public, or other socially inappropriate physical behaviors that cause embarrassment.
Today's most common questions
How Do I Respond to Repetitive Questions?
Communication techniques, patience strategies, understanding the emotional need behind repetition
How Can I Help with Personal Care and Hygiene?
Transform challenging hygiene routines into calmer experiences. Learn techniques for overcoming resistance to bathing and grooming, reducing water anxiety, handling modesty concerns, and creating a soothing environment that makes personal care less threatening.
How Can I Manage Sundowning Symptoms?
Recognizing triggers, creating calming evening routines, reducing anxiety as day turns to night
What Should I Do If My Loved One Wanders?
Prevention strategies, home safety tips, tracking methods, and what to do if your loved one wanders
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