Visiting a Parent With Changing Recognition in Memory Care
A simple family-visit guide for keeping memory-care visits calm, familiar, and focused on connection rather than memory testing.
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Repeated Phone Calls From Memory Care: Building a Supportive Response Plan
A parent in memory care may call the same family member repeatedly with the same question.
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Communication Cues in Memory Care: A Family Handoff Guide
Families can help memory-care staff understand a resident’s communication cues, familiar gestures, routines, and responses that have been helpful.
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Memory Care for Someone Who Speaks More Than One Language
A person with dementia may communicate more easily in one language than another. Learn how memory-care staff can document communication preferences and use clearer, less stressful supports.
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Vascular Dementia in Senior Living: Questions About Changing Function
Vascular dementia and vascular cognitive impairment can affect thinking and daily function after strokes or other vascular injury.
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Lewy Body Dementia and Residential Care: Questions About Staff Experience
Lewy body dementia (LBD) can combine cognitive, movement, sleep, behavioral, and autonomic symptoms.
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Frontotemporal Dementia and Care Placement: How to Describe Support Needs
Frontotemporal dementia can cause early changes in behavior, judgment, language, eating, empathy, or impulse control. Describe the resident’s actual support needs rather than relying on the diagnosis name alone.
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Choosing Memory Care for Someone With Young-Onset Dementia
Young-onset dementia generally refers to dementia symptoms beginning before age 65.
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How to Create a Personal History Sheet for Memory-Care Staff
A memory-care team can provide more individualized support when staff know who the resident was before the move and what still matters now.
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When a Parent in Memory Care Keeps Asking to Go Home
A parent in memory care may ask to “go home” even when they are already in the place where they live.
