Cracking the Dementia Code - Karen A Tyrell - Bog

A New Creative Non-Drug Approach to Coping with Dementia
As exciting discoveries continue for Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias, hope for a cure remains. In the meantime, day to day challenges continue for many families and caregivers.
Karen Tyrell offers her expertise to provide new insights on how to manage disruptive behaviours associated with dementia such as anxiety, aggression, and wandering. Her book delivers tools and case studies that support and demonstrate helpful approaches to dementia care.
One chapter is dedicated to tips on how to Care for the Caregiver. Another chapter offers suggestions on How to Maintain a Healthy Brain. With clarity, Tyrell offers coherent strategies that show caregivers how they can crack the code to reduced stress while integrating effective solutions into their daily routine.
As the CEO of Personalized Dementia Solutions Inc., Karen shares her expertise through speaking engagements and dementia workshops for both families and frontline staff. She also facilitates family caregiver support groups and works one-on-one with caregivers to provide emotional support and practical creative non-pharmacological solutions to help alleviate everyday challenges associated with dementia. She is also the co-creator of the “Dementia Caregiver Solutions” iOS App (released in 2015) which has helped hundreds of caregivers to better care for individuals exhibiting common dementia behaviours.