Alzheimers Care
Sharing Our Experience

Our caregivers help their residents successfully deal with physical, mental, social and emotional challenges on a regular basis. At the same time, they also strive to help each senior to maintain their personal dignity. On this page, our caregivers share some of their experiences with the hope of aiding family members who are caring for an elderly loved one. SeniorCare Diamond Bar California Alzheimers Care Community

Alzheimers Care Tip
Keep Them Calm and Happy

When an Alzheimer or dementia afflicted resident thinks they are in the past, play along with them in their reality instead of trying to argue with them to bring them back into the present. It helps keep them calm and happy and that helps everyone. SeniorCare Diamond Bar California Alzheimers Care Community

Contributed By: Elenor Teano

Alzheimers Care
Are there other types of dementia?

Yes. These include Dementia with Lewy bodies, which gets its name from tiny structures that develop inside nerve cells, and which trigger the degeneration of brain tissue. Other rarer causes of dementia include progressive supranuclear palsy, Korsakoff's syndrome, Binswanger's disease, HIV and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). People with multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease can also be at an increased risk.

AD Treatment


There is currently no cure for Alzheimers disease. Currently available medications offer relatively small symptomatic benefit for some patients but do not slow disease progression. It helps a little for the memory. The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry published a consensus statement on Alzheimers treatment in 2006.

Supplements /Vitamin/

Folate (vitamin B9) is critical to the health of the nervous system. Together with some other B vitamins, folate is also responsible for clearing homocysteine (a body chemical that contributes to chronic illnesses) from the blood. High levels of homocysteine and low levels of both folate and vitamin B12 have been found in people with AD. Although the benefits of taking these B vitamins for AD is not entirely clear, it may be worth considering them, particularly if your homocysteine levels are high.

Incidence and Prevalence


About 2 million people in the United States suffer from Alzheimers disease. Approximately 10% of all people over the age of 65 and as many as 50% of those over the age of 85 are diagnosed with the condition. Alzheimers Care