Dementia is a general term for a wide range of conditions. These include Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular dementia, Frontotemporal dementia, Dementia with Lewy bodies, and other types of dementia. These conditions have different symptoms and may need different kinds of treatment. In the early stages of dementia, many people can live at home and enjoy life in the same way as before their diagnosis.
What is dementia?
The NHS describes dementia as a syndrome (a group of related symptoms) associated with an ongoing decline of brain functioning. This may include problems ranging from memory loss to difficulties carrying out daily activities.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. The NHS states that it is a progressive condition, which means the symptoms develop gradually over many years and eventually become more severe, affecting multiple brain functions.
What is Care at Home when you have dementia?
Following a dementia diagnosis, you should have been advised by your GP or dementia nurse on how you can keep doing what is important to you for as long as possible as well as information about local support and services that you may find helpful.
But as the illness progresses, you will likely find it more difficult to look after yourself and your home. You may then need extra help with daily activities, such as housework, shopping, and adaptations to your home.
Dementia is a complex illness, and even the smallest changes to one’s daily routine can cause unnecessary stress, which is why more families are relying on MedUKCare’s dementia home care services as opposed to residential care homes.
As a specialist dementia home care service, MedUKCare offers a team of carers that are well experienced in supporting people with dementia to live an independent life at home.
We will do everything we can to ensure that our carers are placed in long-term assignments, reducing the anxiety associated with someone constantly coming and going from the home.
How can dementia home care help you and your family?
We aim to give everyone living with dementia a high quality of life in their own home. Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease have many different strains and stages and our care assistants work with the family of the person living with dementia, as well as with specialists and other healthcare professionals, to put together a tailored care plan.
MedUKCare will help you stay home
Helping someone you love to cope with the challenges that come with dementia and memory loss can be exhausting, upsetting, and isolating. But MedUKCare is here to offer practical support, advice, and reassurance. We can provide flexible support that is adapted to suit you or your loved one’s changing needs.
Familiarity, regular routines, and being cared for at home can slow the progression of many common dementia symptoms. Staying at home helps people living with dementia to retain their independence. Changes in routine and environment have been shown to have a detrimental effect, while being looked after at home, in safe, comfortable surroundings provides enormous reassurance, which can slow the progression of many of the disease’s common symptoms.
The benefits of dementia home care services
- Home comforts: allowing you or your loved one to stay in familiar surroundings.
- Stability: offering the reassurance that you or your family member can stay in touch with friends and the community.
- Peace of mind: the reassurance that comes with high-quality home care, provided by highly qualified carers.
- Flexibility: home care service that can be adapted to changing circumstances.
- Cost: depending on the care needed, home care may be cheaper than residential care.
- Pets: if you or your loved one has any pets, they can stay in the home too.
The importance of routine for people with dementia
For people with dementia, orientation and day-to-day memory can be challenging. For this reason, having a routine is even more important than usual. At MedUKCare, we aim to permanently allocate each of our clients with the same care assistants.
MedUKCare is committed to improving the lives of those with dementia. We pride ourselves on providing high-quality personalised dementia home care.
Dementia training
We are dedicated to ensuring our care assistants receive the very best in-depth dementia training so that they can use a range of approaches and techniques to reduce anxiety, provide reassurance, reduce feelings of confusion and anxiety, as well as helping with everyday life, including personal care, mobility, eating and drinking, and assisting with medication.
Our care assistants present decisions to their clients in a way that is sympathetic to their condition. They are trained never to overwhelm anyone with choices.
With the help and support of our carefully selected carers, you will have the opportunity to live your life as you would like to do, at home.
Diet and exercise for people with dementia
Our carers undergo mandatory training in nutrition and hydration and will work hard to ensure the person with dementia is eating healthily and taking appropriate exercise.
A common symptom of dementia is a change in taste or a loss of appetite, but a healthy diet and suitable exercise have been shown to have a positive effect on dementia symptoms.
Communication and language difficulties for people with dementia
Finding the right words or understanding the questions asked can be frustrating for those with dementia. Our training helps our care assistants to know how best to communicate and help their clients feel at ease, even if conversing and being understood is challenging for them.
What are the costs of dementia home care with MedUKCare?
The cost of dementia home care can be cheaper than residential care based on your specific circumstances. Our Dementia 24/7 Live-in Care Service (link to live-in page) starts at £145 per day depending on the care needs assessment
To find out more about our Dementia home care service, call us today on 020 7993 4807