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Main entry under title:

At home with Alzheimers disease: useful

adaptations to the home environment

Text in English and French with French text

on inverted pages.

Title on added t.p.: La maladie dAlzheimer chez soi.

ISBN 0-662-57987-9

DSS cat. no. NH15-48/1990

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1. Aged Canada Dwellings. 2. Alzheimers

disease. I. Canada Mortgage and Housing

Corporation. II. Title: La maladie dAlzheimer

chez soi.

HD7287.C3A8 1990 363.5975 C91-098510-3E


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A Study on Adapting Private

Dwellings to Alzheimers Disease

About 80 percent of people with Alzheimers Diseaselive at home with a caregiver, usually a husbandor wife. To learn how caregivers adapt theirhomes to suit both their patients behaviour and their

own needs, a national study was carried outin 1988. The focus of the study was on thepractical physical changes made to privatedwellings to accommodate the behaviour ofpersons with Alzheimers Disease and thespecial needs of their caregivers. The purpose ofgathering and reporting this information was toprovide Alzheimers caregivers with helpful ideasabout practical changes they could make to theirhomes.The information was gathered by means of

elephone and face-to-face interviews acrossCanada and a national mail-out survey ofcaregivers of persons with Alzheimers Disease. Thestudy was carried out by Nancy Gnaedinger,a consultant in gerontology in Ottawa, and wasfunded by the External Research Program of CanadaMortgage and Housing Corporation.


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Put away power tools, scissors and any other

items that the AD person can no longer use

safely, such as liquor, fans, keys, lamps with

cords, firearms, lighters and matches, glass-

ware from the china cabinet, and small electrical

appliances (such as hair dryers).


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Contact your local Alzheimer Society of Canada

www.alzheimer.ca

It is very important for people in the community

to be able to identify AD persons. Their name

and address should be clearly marked on an iden-

tification bracelet, which they wear at all times.

Get all the help that you can from family,

neighbours, shopkeepers and hired helpers of

every description.

Where handicapped stickers can be obtained

for the caregiver, apply one to your car so that

you can park closer to shops when out with your

patient.

If you are a spouse-caregiver, go out with

another couple so that someone of the same sex

can take the AD person to the washroom.

Get a visiting nurse to give baths rather than risk

a back injury.

Notify your neighbours and the police of your

patients conditions and ask them to alert you if

the AD person is seen wandering.


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