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Help For Those with Alzheimer’s Disease

Service dogs for Alzheimer’s patients make life safer.

We know that memory loss, progressive inability to function, and increasing disorientation are the frustrating and devastating symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Because it is frightening for caregivers to let someone with Alzheimer’s out of their sight even briefly, the world of the person with Alzheimer’s becomes steadily smaller. This often leads to a lack of independence and depression for the Alzheimer patient. They may become increasingly dependent on others for assistance with basic tasks. It is also common for them to experience feelings of isolation, frustration, anger and helplessness.nursing homes Dyer

Now there is help and hope for Alzheimer’s patients who want to live a more normal, more independent life. In the beginning and middle stages of the disease, people who have adequate support and appropriate assistance can still lead a functional and somewhat independent life.

Service dogs have long been used as guide dogs for the blind, and dogs are being used for many other types of assistance now as well. Dogs thrive on predictability and routine, and this is what much of the training for the Alzheimer’s assistance dogs is based upon. They are trained to help guide their person through the day. The dogs are trained to respond to the sound of a timer, which signals them to bring the person’s medicine, or another which prompts the dog to take the person to a cupboard with food. The dogs are also trained to respond to emergency situations. They learn to trigger an alarm in the house if their person should fall and not get up, or if they hear a choking sound.

Another important task of these service dogs is to bring his/her person home when he gets the “Home” command. If, for any reason the person is unable to follow the dog home, the dog is trained to stay with the person and call attention to the situation by barking. The dog’s collar is also equipped with a GPS device, so a caregiver can locate the person. Also, the device makes a tone that the dog recognizes as an alternate command to lead his person home, if his person forgets to give the command.

These dogs also provide companionship and comfort for their owners. They become an anchor to reality for people with Alzheimer’s by helping to maintain meaningful daily routines, and a better quality of life.

Dyer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center also focuses on quality of life issues as you can see in this article: Tops among nursing homes in Dyer.

 

 

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I have found the staff to be very pleasant, patient, friendly and helpful! For finances, I spoke to the bookkeeper, Laura and she was a great help and directed me in the right direction.

Shannon

Dyer Nursing and Rehabilitation is GREAT!

My Mom was in another area Nursing Home. Being very dissatisfied with her care there, when she had to be readmitted due to a severe infection we inquired about other Facilities. My Sister\’s coworker informed us her sister worked at Dyer Nursing Facility and thought we should check them out. I can not begin to […]

Thank You!

Thank You! My wife was admitted about one year ago to Dyer Nursing & Rehab. The nursing staff is so good and caring. They treat my wife good and that means a lot to me since I can’t always be there. When ever I have a concern they are always there to help me. The […]

My second admission…

Thank you again! This is my second admission to Dyer Nursing & Rehab. I was admitted back to the same room I was in before. I don’t attend many activities because I’m an avid reader so I enjoy going into the facility Library and reading book, they have so many to choose from. I enjoy […]

Eight years

8 Years I have been at Dyer Nursing & Rehab for eight years now. I like being here, I help the activities staff. I ran the general store for seven years. The staff here treats me good, the food is good and I would recommend Dyer to others. I like it here because we get […]

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