Dementia & Alzheimer's Disease
Modify Environment | Go Along | Use Distraction | Challenging Behavior | Plan Activities | Communicate with Respect | Share Joys | Eat Well | Check the Locks | Safe Return | Quiet Evenings

Modify the environment.

Perhaps your wife becomes agitated every time she sees herself in a mirror, thinking it is a stranger.

Removing the mirrors from the rooms where she normally goes so she doesn't see herself might just do the trick.

Links to other sites with information on this topic:

Home Care, from The National Institute on Aging has even more tips to help you provide care at home for someone with Alzheimer's Disease.

Home Safety for People with Alzheimer's Disease. A booklet for those who provide in-home care for people with Alzheimer's Disease or related disorders. Begins with a checklist to help you make each room in your home a safer environment for the person with AD. Specific home safety tips are listed to help you cope with some of the more hazardous behaviors that may occur as the disease advances.