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Raising Alzheimer’s Awareness and Advocacy
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The Belgian Malinois Who Protected America Essential Nutritional Tips for Alzheimer’s Caregivers
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Perfect Peach Cobbler No Excuse for Bad Manners
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Apps to Improve Caregivers’ Efficiency
Caregiving Made Easier
Caring for an elderly loved one can be incredibly stressful and difficult, but modern technology has innovated many ways to make this challenging task more manageable than ever before. Using these tools makes caring for someone else easier and makes it easier to care for yourself. Here are three apps to take a look at. Caring Village This app was created by a team that understands what caregivers go through. Members of the team all have experience providing care for loved ones who couldn’t look after themselves. Using that experience, they created an app that offers personalized to-do lists, care plans, medication lists, calendars, a wellness journal, and more. Caring Village is one of the best apps on the market for organization, ensuring a caregiver doesn’t miss any task. Medisafe Whether the one you care for is suffering from a short-term or prolonged medical condition, managing their prescriptions is paramount. Medisafe Apps to Enhance Your Care and Communication
helps by sending personalized messages as a reminder for when medications need to be taken, when to refill them, and where best to go to fill them. Best of all, they have paired with GoodRx to provide users with coupons and discount codes for many medications. While the basic version of the app is free, the premium version is $4.99 monthly or $39.99 for a year. MindMate Declining cognitive ability and memory
loss are problems for both those suffering from these disabilities and those caring for them. Luckily, simple tools can help manage mental decline and improve functioning in many cognitive areas. Over a million people worldwide use Mindmate, which provides fun, interactive games to help stimulate the brain. It also offers a daily plan of activities, managing everything from recipes to workout routines.
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