Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease can have high physical, emotional, and financial costs. The demands of day-to-day care, changes in family roles, and finding a qualified home health private duty provider can be difficult. Becoming well-informed about the disease is one important long-term strategy. There are some options for extending care at home:

Day programs, also called adult day care, are programs that typically operate on weekdays and offer a variety of activities and socialization opportunities. They also provide the chance for you as the caregiver to continue working or attend to other needs.

?Respite care. Respite care is short-term care where your loved one stays in a facility temporarily. This gives you a block of time to rest, travel, or attend to other things.

Assistance with personal care services.

1. Bathing, hygiene, grooming, skin care, oral hygiene, hair care, and dressing
2. Assistance with bowel and bladder care needs
3. Assistance with ambulation and transfers
4. Assistance with medications that are ordinarily self-administered, when ordered by the client’s physician
5. Assistance with wound care and respiratory care, by a PCA with specific training, satisfactory documented performance, and case manager’s consent, when ordered by the client’s physician
6. Assistance with feeding, nutrition, meal preparation, and other dietary activities
7. Assistance with exercise, positioning, and range of motion to maintain and/or strengthen muscle tone, and to prevent contractures, decubitus ulcers, and/or deterioration
8. Assistance with adaptive equipment and supplies, including care of such equipment and supplies
9. Observing and reporting changes in client behavior, functioning, condition, and/or self-care abilities, which may necessitate more or less service