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Today we're going to be discussing difficult behaviors that are associated with dementia.

If you have a loved one who has been diagnosed with a form of dementia, then you probably already know that behaviors can change from day to day and hour by hour.

There are no guaranteed, proven methods or actions that can change from day to day and hour by hour. There are no guaranteed proven

methods or actions that can change these behaviors, but there are ways that are better for handling

them than others. We're going to be discussing and going through the most common and challenging

behaviors that are associated with dementia, as well as discussing effective ways for

handling them first let's go through the most common challenging behaviors aggression

anger apathy or loss of interest personality changes trouble with communicating

shadowing you or someone else for excessive periods of time, mood swings,

walking around at night, pacing or acting out physically, maybe even hitting or other aggressive

physical actions. Restlessness, verbal abuse. A common theme for caregivers is to seek and ask for help from others.

This can be difficult. Sometimes we want to help protect our loved ones by not exposing them to others

due to the decline in their health and the progression of their dementia.

We recently had spoke with a family whose father had been a pastor for many years at a local church in the community,

and their father was recovering from hip surgery after having a couple of serious falls,

and they needed some help for a month or two until he regained his strength and was back on his feet.

But during this meeting, one of the daughters had pulled us aside

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