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A caregiver can be a relative, friend or professional health worker who provides care to someone who cannot care for himself or herself due to a disability or functional limitation. The care can include: non-medical care such as help with bathing, eating, or household chores, or medical care such as changing dressings.

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  1. Top Ten Reasons Why Alzheimer's Patients Need Activities
    By AGIS Staff, AGIS Network
    Discusses the top ten reasons why Alzheimer's patients need daily activities in their lives to combat boredom and to remain as strong as possible. Includes suggestions for enjoyable activities in arts and crafts…
  2. Can Alzheimer's Disease be Prevented?
    National Institute on Aging
    As people get older, they wonder whether they can do anything to prevent diseases that happen more often with age, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).
  3. Dementia and pain management: a personal story
    Family Caregiver Alliance
  4. A Good Night's Sleep
    National Institute on Aging
    Many older people don't sleep well. If you're always sleepy, it may be time to see a doctor.
  5. Frontotemporal Dementia Connections Reprint
    National Institute on Aging
    Scientists and clinicians have identified a number of progressive degenerative brain conditions (other than Alzheimer's Disease) that cause dementia, including a rare group of diseases called frontotemporal
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