9 Tips To Tackle Dementia Behaviour Problems In Loved One?

The dementia patients might behave aggressively and show signs like scratching, hair-pulling, hitting, pinching, biting, shouting, threatening, and swearing. Have you encountered these symptoms or is your elderly loved ones displaying off these signals? If yes, just avoid correcting them because it often results in sadness and frustration in them. So, check out some strategies that will help you out to prevent dementia behavior issues.

Reasons:

1. Just remember that people who have dementia feel trapped or cornered when you approach them. They feel threatened or violated when being handled by the other people.

2. They might be sudden aggressive due to pain, illness, or infection.

3. Something or someone around them is creating distress in them, and they are not in a position to identify or express what they need.

4. They cannot control their aggressive impulses.

What To Do?

1. Look for the early signs of discomfort or distress before the individual acts aggressively.

2. Mainly, be careful about the approach the dementia patient from the front side, make eye contact and ask permission to touch or greet, etc.

3. Create a physical space between the individual and other people around them.

4. Maintain, get back or speak in a calm voice.

5. Look out for the unaccomplished requirements or discomforts and the address them.

6. Engage your loved one in the activities that make them feel happy.

7. Take help from a doctor to assess pain, fractures, infections or other health issues.

8. Just avoid overpowering or corner the patient as these behaviors are beyond the control of the dementia patients. Don't even try to shout at them.

9. If this happens continuously, take medications and ask your loved one to consume it.

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