Caregiver Training: How To Handle Aggression - 24 Hour Home Care

Very few times is it that easy....good technique

😮 listen my friends I respect his approach but in the end this comes of as giving people a reward for there troubling behaviors...some of the people are well versed in the fact that if I act out appropriately they will give me what I want....this does help and is of use in those....make or break situations...however redirection and professional behavior goes a long way....always remember our friends are just like us...human in every way....play the middle ground...and commend them on fighting there battles...but life can be good if we work on ourselves.

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Yeah, that’s not what happens.

To say this as a preface, I work in a nursing home in my town. The way I deal with combative patients is always the same, I knock gently and enter the room, walk over and sit down by the bed or on the edge of the bed with the patient and just talk low and gentle about their day and such in an attempt to distract them, had a dementia patient one day who wouldn’t let a single person be with her, but when I went into the room and did what I usually do she sat a little closer and hugged against my arm, holding my arm as if she was scared, I caressed her back and let her keep hugging my arm as I comforted her. Remember, it’s all about approach for the reaction you receive

What the heck was that, that was nothing what I go through. My dementia person it's vicious: slamming, banging, rattling it's surrounding like a gorilla furthermore yelling and threatening to kill.

The problem is, these people don't work. They don't do anything purposeful, meaningful, or useful. Whatever is in front of them is their whole experience. It is their entertainment. It is the source of their troubles. It is YOU, the caregiver. So when this person in their diseased mind decides they are going to be problematic, then it is the caregiver who bares the brunt of it. And they can't and won't be reasoned with. They can't be punished. They will just do whatever they want to you and once you are replaced, they'll do it to the next person too. That's the reality.

How do you handle a person with dementia who inflicts violence on him/herself to get his/her way.

Its not so easy everyone aggression is not the same. Some is worst than some

When you think about it, majority if them just want to "go" so maybe find out from him where he often thinks about going and what he often thinks about doing in his reoccurring memories and create his room ambience according to that to make him want to stay and feel comfortable.

I wish it is this easy. a 200 lb 19 year old yelling and acting in aggression. this is 10% of what I go through as a caregiver.

Physically aggressive bleeding brain out of control at Coney island park rules.

It's not that easy

THANKS !!

Deescalating the amount of sugar & carbs in the elder are diet would REDUCE CONFRONTATIONAL EPISODES WITH the elderly…INCREASED PROTEIN would improve behavior, reduced anxiety & depression. Think just like KIDS STOP SUGARING THEM UP AND CREATING YOUR BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS…DIET IS ABUSE IN ASSISTED LIVING AND NURSING FACILITIES.

Great redirect. Simple and easy. Real skills

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