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Long-Term Care
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Posted: 11 Jan 2017 09:59 AM PST
Canadians often
dread a move to long-term care (LTC). However, individuals living with
dementia will likely need this type of care at some point during the course
of their disease. In fact, 57% of seniors living in a residential care home
have a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and/or other dementia1 and
70% of all individuals diagnosed with dementia will die in a nursing home2.
The Alzheimer
Society has an obligation to support a better experience of moving to and
living in LTC for everyone – individuals with dementia, their family and
staff. That’s why they’ve launched a new resource to help individuals living
with dementia and their families through the many complex issues involved in
moving to long-term care.
This resource
includes a four piece set of evidence based resources to support families and
individuals with dementia as they:
1.
Consider a move to long-term
care
2. Prepare for a move
3. Handle moving day
4. Adjust after a move
Each of the four resources can be downloaded in
English at http://bit.ly/2jEjlZI and in French at http://bit.ly/2jjGwFp from the Alzheimer
Society of Canada website.
1 Canadian Institute for Health Information, Caring for Seniors
with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Forms of Dementia, August 2010.
2 Mitchell S, Teno J, Miller S, Mor V: A national study of the location of death for older persons with dementia. JAGS 2005, 53:299-305  |