Dementia care in Bath

We have 40 years of experience placing compatible carers to live-in and provide support to adults suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s. If you are having difficulties caring for your loved one, you do not have to go through it alone. At Featherbed Homecare, we help take the pressure off family members and friends by tailoring our comprehensive services to meet our clients’ needs.

Our services include:

Personal Care Services

• Help with bathing, dressing, incontinence care, and feeding
• Help with walking, transfer from bed to chair or wheelchair
• Help with toileting and safe trips to the bathroom at night
• Making sure medication is taken on time

Light Housekeeping Services

• Clean bathrooms, make and change beds
• Meal preparation
• Shopping, running errands
• Doing laundry

Companion Services

• Accompanying the client to doctor appointments
• Accompanying the client to social and recreational activities
• Engaging in meaningful conversation

If you want to give yourself the peace of mind that your loved one is secure and being cared for in the comfort of your home, then contact us for more information about our Dementia Care services.

What is Dementia?

Dementia is a general term used to describe a cognitive decline that’s severe enough to interfere with daily life.

Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia. Other common forms of dementia include:

• Vascular dementia: Occurs after a stroke.
• Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Decrease in cognitive ability that’s accompanied by hallucinations, movement problems, and delusions.
• Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD): This form of dementia affects personality and speech, but not memory.

Less common types of dementia include:

• Parkinson’s Disease Dementia
• Huntington’s Disease Dementia
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Prion Diseases
• Dementia in HIV/AIDS
• Traumatic Brain Injury Dementia
• Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (Includes dementia from alcohol abuse)

Brain Cell Death Leads to Dementia

Dementia is the term for a group of symptoms that cause a person to have problems with cognitive functions such as memory, thinking, problem-solving and communicating. The problems occur due to the gradual loss of nerve cells in the brain. Brain cells that stop functioning properly lose connection with other nerve cells in the brain and die. The death of these brain cells leads to dementia. Different diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, can cause brain cell death.

Other diseases that affect brain cells include:

• Lewy body: This is the second most common type of dementia. This disease is caused by protein deposits that develop in nerve cells in the brain.
• Vascular dementia: This type of dementia results from brain damage that occurs after a stroke or another condition that damages blood vessels and decreases blood circulation to the brain.

As dementia symptoms progress, people with dementia can no longer handle simple, everyday tasks such as cooking, paying bills or cleaning the house. People in the severe stage of dementia usually need around-the-clock support because they cannot take care of themselves.

Featherbed carers understand the progression of dementia and the physical, emotional and financial toll that it takes on older adults and their family members. This is why we provide Dementia Care that involves a comprehensive 24-hour professional support system for our carers and clients.

Dementia Results in More Dependency on Others

An older adult in the early stages of dementia may show symptoms typical of the normal ageing process, such as forgetting names or recent events or misplacing keys. But dementia symptoms become worse over time and interfere with a person’s daily life. For instance, an older adult with dementia will have trouble:

• Banking, paying bills and handling other personal expenses
• Handling routine household chores
• Driving without getting lost in familiar surroundings
• Speaking clearly and logically

Dementia can also bring on personality changes. For instance, older adults who were once outgoing might shy away from friends and lose interest in activities that they once enjoyed. The positive outlook, passion, and zest for life a person once had can turn into depression, apathy, and fear because of dementia.

Older adults will struggle to live independently and have to rely on others for long-term care.

How Featherbed Homecare can help

Featherbed carers offer relief to family members and others who care for older adults. We know the demands placed on a carer’s time and energy. Caring is even more difficult if a family member or friend is still working.

Featherbed Homecare has 40 years of experience placing carers with clients suffering from all types of dementia in Bath, Bristol and throughout the UK. We encourage families to take advantage of our live-in care services. To learn more about our Dementia Care services, contact us today at 0117 9860710.

Increased care is required as Dementia Symptoms Progress.

As dementia symptoms progress, a family member’s caring duties usually increase. However, adding more responsibilities to an already busy schedule may cause that person to burn out or become ill.

Because of the care demands, a family may put a loved one in a nursing home with special units for dementia patients.

Since dementia symptoms are progressive, a person can be in the home for years. The long-term costs can eventually drain a family’s budget and cause financial hardships.

At Featherbed Homecare, our compatible and experienced live-in carers can provide many of the same functions as nursing home staff. More importantly, we provide long-term, one-to-one, consistent care that nursing home staff may not be able to provide every day to their multiple clients.

With over 40 years of experience in dementia care, we at Featherbed Homecare, along with our wonderful live-in carers, are committed to providing a unique, in-home dementia care approach that supports your loved ones and gives families peace of mind.