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Home safety tips for people with dementia

Memory loss is a normal sign of aging but to be considered normal, it shouldn’t limit your ability to perform daily tasks. A severe decline in a person’s mental capacity is no longer a normal sign of aging.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people suffering from dementia around the world is estimated to be 47 million. This statistic is expected to increase to 75 million come the year 2030.[1] Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60-80% of total dementia cases

Why is Home Safety a Big Deal?
As a person’s dementia worsens, safety issues become increasingly vital to prevent accidents and injuries. People with dementia might forget what is safe and what is not, due to their diminished mental abilities in areas such as:

Behavior. They might get easily disoriented and suspicious.
Judgment. They might forget how to use household tools and appliances.
Physical ability. They might suffer from balance problems.
Senses. They might experience vision and hearing changes as well as diminished sensitivity to temperature and depth perception.
Home Safety Tips and Precautions
To reduce the risk of accidents and injuries, here are some safety tips and precautionary measures that you can follow.[3]

1. Evaluate house hazards.
Allot some time to determine hazards in the house that might pose danger to your family member with dementia. Evaluate the corridors, stairs, kitchen, garage, garden, and laundry area and identify the tools and equipment that need to be locked away. Install safety sensors where necessary.

Secret recipes for a healthy mind

Buddha had once said, “Mind is everything. What you think you become.“

The mind is a sacred lighthouse of our body. A healthy mind is like a serene beach. As crucial it is to maintain our physical levels of fitness, it is equally important to groom our minds from time to time.

Through thick and thin times, mind has surfed across rough tides of emotions like worries, temperaments, vulnerabilities, etc. It has become quintessentially mandatory to prim the mind from time to time to prevent it from having a dent or becoming malleable.

Toning the mind is an essential factor. Let us look at some of the methods to create a diet plan for human mind.

Method 1 – The declutter recipe
The pioneer, Mahatma Gandhi had quoted, “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.“

The beginner’s step to achieving a fit mind is to declutter it. Throw away the unwanted gibberish lying hauntedly in the crooked nooks. What good does accumulated trash bring forth? Like your living space, mind also has to be vacuumed of stacked anger, jealousy, hatred towards others, etc.

An interesting episode of a mind-declutter goes this way. A friend of mine had gone through an emotional heartbreak and she was refusing to move on. Her mind had become stagnant thinking about her ex. After about a year, when I had met her, I realized that this person had utterly shapeshifted to a mature, career-oriented independent woman.

Talking about the morphing, she said, she let go of all the dump she was holding back in mind. After all the resentment, remorse and guilt stepped out, there was room for comfortably cataloging the thoughts. Then, she had slowly started refurbishing the mind and realized that she was much oriented to progress her career more than anything else. Currently, she is in a very successful position in a company with very satisfactory earnings.

Hence, cleanse your mind and organize it sporadically so as to give it a neat and free shape to think. Then watch the wonders unfold!

Method 2 – Keep the force strong recipe
“A cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind navigates its way through a thousand difficulties.”-Swami Vivekananda

How do you create a mind that is fool-proof to rebukes, rebuttals, etc?

The answer lies deep within yourself. Enhance your underlying strengths. Always, believe yourself to be the best version ever created. Never let anyone underestimate the power of yourself. Each one is born to achieve something great in life.

So how do you retune your mind to it’s original self after being affected by hatred or being put down? Coat your mind with extra layers of barriers like self-confidence, tolerance, etc for reinforcement. This will help to cushion the buoyancy of a mind’s strength.

An example of polishing a powerful mind is as follows. When a laborer goes to work, he starts the day on a positive note, which is to make as much money to be able to get meals for him and his family. Yet, there are places where he is being abused verbally, which in turn takes a mental toll on his health. Should he rather choose to stay calm and disregard the abuse or should he fight back?

The answer is subjective. But if I were in the situation, I would train my mind to not tolerate the abuse, irrespective of the consequences and would definitely fight back till the end. I genuinely feel that it would be the right thing to do. Only a well-trained mind will be able to make decisions like this and prove to be worthy of surviving in the world.