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Caregiver tip sheets: Getting lost

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Length:
2 pages

Created By: Alzheimer's Los Angeles

Date Published: 2023

Category: Understand mood or behaviour changes, Respond to mood or behaviour changes

Description:

This tip sheet helps care partners understand and respond to a person with dementia's desire to move causing them to become lost. It offers reasons why a person with dementia may get lost when they follow their desire to move, but it focuses on what care partners should do to decreases the chances of the person with dementia from becoming lost. This tip sheet is available in Spanish on the second page.

This tip sheet is available in the following languages: Japanese | Chinese | Korean | Tagalog

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This resource

  • Is intended for a public audience
  • Addresses a desire to move
  • Created internationally