{"id":4438,"date":"2025-05-08T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mickeylieberman.com\/alzheimers\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:08:52","slug":"how-to-provide-your-parents-with-dementia-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mickeylieberman.com\/alzheimers\/how-to-provide-your-parents-with-dementia-care\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Provide Your Parents with Dementia Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Provide Your Parents with Dementia Care<\/span><\/p>\n

Dementia is a very debilitating and often depressing disease that can affect your parents by the time they reach middle age.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a few ways in which you can attempt to stall the progress of dementia through natural means before it begins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dementia is a progressive disease that, if halted in its early stages, rarely (if ever) progresses into the grave and often debilitating disease which manifests in many elderly individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n

While there are drugs that can help provide your parents with dementia care, you can do one better by incorporating restorative measures to help prevent the progress of dementia through a therapeutic approach to diet and nutrition.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the most common methods of curing dementia involve drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is, however a preventative approach that involves very simple diet changes that may also be tried.<\/span><\/p>\n

By incorporating fatty fish such as salmon, tuna, haddock, sardines, and mackerel in your parent’s daily diet can reduce the severity of dementia and possibly even help in halting its progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

When trying to provide your parents with dementia care, a diet rich in whole grains, fatty fish, antioxidant-rich fruits, as well as green tea should provide enough optimal nutrition to act as a preventative against the development of dementia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soy, when consumed in moderation at an early age, has also been shown to help prevent the development of the disease at a later date.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another great and wholesome way to provide your parents with dementia care is to allow them to maintain regular physical and mental activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Living a sedentary lifestyle has been shown to hasten the progress of dementia in individuals in their late forties and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elderly individuals that maintained a regular physical wellness routine such as yoga, tai-chi, or even brisk walking have been shown to fare better than their sedentary counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lastly, try helping your parents to engage in stimulating mental activity through regular and animated conversation, long contemplative talks, and enjoyable activities such as reading and writing, which will help to stimulate their minds.<\/span><\/p>\n

When coupled with dietary therapy and medical help, such activities can significantly halt the progress of the disease and, with luck, possibly even reverse it.<\/span><\/p>\n

You should find this information helpful in providing your parents with dementia care that is wholesome and natural.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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