28 min
Episode 19: How to Handle Hallucinations in People Living with Dementia Make Dementia Your B*tch!
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- Mental Health
Hallucinations refer to sights, sounds, feelings, and smells that come from inside the brain. Hallucinations are common with Lewy Body Dementia but can happen with any dementia. The person with dementia is seeing, hearing, or smelling stuff that the rest of us are not experiencing. Hallucinations can also happen when people living with dementia experience delirium. Delirium occurs when people living with dementia suddenly become more confused than usual; infections, especially bladder infections, can cause delirium in people with dementia.
In people with dementia, hallucinations may arise from changes in the brain and the brain chemicals. Hallucinations may be scary, like seeing a stranger standing next to the bed. Or they can be comforting, like seeing and hearing young children playing in the living room. Sometimes the hallucinations may be more like vivid memories, such as when a person with dementia sees a long-dead family member from long ago.
Learn how to handle hallucinations that are scary to people living with dementia.
Frustrated with care refusals? Go to https://makedementiayourbitch.com for a free copy of my checklist, “15 Ways to Manage Dementia Care Refusals.”
Have a dementia question? Want to hear it answered on a future podcast? Email me: info@makedementiayourbitch.com.
Looking for a community? I have my own Facebook page for dementia caregivers: https://www.facebook.com/DementiaCentric
Are you struggling with dementia behaviors? I can help!! I also provide webinars and on-site training to groups! Check out my offerings: https://dementiacentricsolutions.com
#alzheimers #lewy body #frontotemporal #dementia #caregiving #care refusal #caregiving
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Hallucinations refer to sights, sounds, feelings, and smells that come from inside the brain. Hallucinations are common with Lewy Body Dementia but can happen with any dementia. The person with dementia is seeing, hearing, or smelling stuff that the rest of us are not experiencing. Hallucinations can also happen when people living with dementia experience delirium. Delirium occurs when people living with dementia suddenly become more confused than usual; infections, especially bladder infections, can cause delirium in people with dementia.
In people with dementia, hallucinations may arise from changes in the brain and the brain chemicals. Hallucinations may be scary, like seeing a stranger standing next to the bed. Or they can be comforting, like seeing and hearing young children playing in the living room. Sometimes the hallucinations may be more like vivid memories, such as when a person with dementia sees a long-dead family member from long ago.
Learn how to handle hallucinations that are scary to people living with dementia.
Frustrated with care refusals? Go to https://makedementiayourbitch.com for a free copy of my checklist, “15 Ways to Manage Dementia Care Refusals.”
Have a dementia question? Want to hear it answered on a future podcast? Email me: info@makedementiayourbitch.com.
Looking for a community? I have my own Facebook page for dementia caregivers: https://www.facebook.com/DementiaCentric
Are you struggling with dementia behaviors? I can help!! I also provide webinars and on-site training to groups! Check out my offerings: https://dementiacentricsolutions.com
#alzheimers #lewy body #frontotemporal #dementia #caregiving #care refusal #caregiving
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rita-a-jablonski/message
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rita-a-jablonski/support
28 min