Finding a home for loved ones who are elderly is often challenging, which is why Sandra Wallace established Insight Memory Care Choices. An assisted living administrator, Sandra started Insight Memory Care Choices to provide assisted living options for seniors, including those with dementia. Individuals with declining cognitive functions are more fragile, and caring for them includes several aspects.

1. Caring for Individuals with
Dementia
Insight Memory Care Choices

2. Introduction
 Finding a home for loved ones who are elderly is often
challenging, which is why Sandra Wallace established Insight
Memory Care Choices. An experienced assisted living
administrator, Sandra started Insight Memory Care Choices to
provide assisted living choices for seniors, including those with
dementia. Individuals with declining cognitive functions need
increasing support from family or designated professionals to
help them navigate their daily home routine and financial
matters.
Dementia interferes with a person’s capability to take care of
themselves because of one's decreasing judgment and
distorted perception of their own abilities. In more advanced
stages, seniors will need more assistance with all daily tasks,
such as dressing, bathing, eating, and toileting. Dementia
professionals can help families understand changes in their
loved one's behavior.

3. Individuals with Dementia
 Sometimes it could be "sundowning", or the increase in
paranoia related to forgetting where they placed things,
or changes within their living environment, or changes in
their sleeping patterns, to name a few. Patience is
needed when caring for anyone with memory loss.
Repeated questions clearly test one's ability to remain
calm, so it is important to remember that the patient’s
behavior is caused by his or her illness. They are not
deliberately acting this way.
It is also very important for those people with dementia to
get help in settling their personal affairs, both legal and
financial. This can be done with a DPOA, Durable Power
of Attorney form, which must be notarized when
completed. Once a person loses their cognitive capacity,
they can no longer decide who they want to handle their
affairs.