Caring For Individuals With Dementia with Adam from ADFM
3:46PM Mar 13, +0000
Speakers:
Deborah
Adam
Keywords:
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At ADFM daycare centre and with me today is Adam.
Hi, I'm Adam.
He's also working and a volunteer at ADFM centre and has been here for about 7 years already. So today we're gonna ask him a few questions about the daycare centre. So, maybe you can tell- walk us through what is, how do we like identify someone with early onset dementia.
Okay. Firstly, can I speak Malay because my English is not so -
Yeah, boleh je.
Macam mana kita nak tahu dia early stage, firstly kita kena ambil dia punya history taking, dia punya sejarah lampau dia. Kita kena tanya ahli keluarga dia, kita tanya dia punya saudara-mara bila dia kena. So kita boleh tahu dari situ, kita boleh tengok dia punya level of the disease- dia punya penyakit. Lepas itu, kita boleh tahu dia punya cara pemakaian dia, cara daily- daily activity dia. So macam kalau dia early stage dia nampak normal tapi kita boleh perasan dia akan selalu repeat, dia akan selalu macam tanya banyak soalan, pastu dia macam mana nak cakap, dia buat benda yang berulang. Pastu dia akan -
Oh, like repetitive. Selalu yang buat like let's say dia pergi ke dapur, then pergi dapur, pergi dapur all the time is it?
Macam dia pergi toilet, tak sampai 5 minit lagi, dia pergi lagi, cakap nak pergi toilet.
So, for all the viewers out there like if you notice like your parents or your grandparents have any of these signs then maybe do look out for it. So like what do you do at the daycare centre?
Macam- we do macam biasa ada routine. Everyday is same routine. Sama je- sama setiap hari. Macam morning exercise kita akan start pukul 10 pagi, lepas tu dalam morning exercise tu kita akan buat brain gym, pastu coordination exercise dengan strecthing exercise. Sebab diaorang pun [inaudible] so kita pun kena stretching dia punya muscle sebab bila kita tak gerak, dia akan become weaker.
Macam sedentary
Ah yeah betul. Dia punya muscle semua weak. Sebab sometime dia akan - bila dia dah late stage dia akan masuk dia punya macam motor sensory- motor skills. Pastu lepas buat exercise, kita akan bawa dia pergi cuci tangan ataupun washroom. Tolong mereka pergi bersihkan diri diaorang semua. Then kita. Dalam pukul 10, kita bagi dia minum pagi, morning breakfast.
Why is it important for people to come to the daycare centre? Like ada apa-apa benefit atau untuk semua orang melalui dementia? Key word there is no. My kids have been affected. For the
Benefit untuk diaorang hantar ke daycare ini, some family mungkin sibuk bekerja ataupun macam, walaupun dia tak bekerja tapi dia boleh hantar daycare ini untuk release dia punya stress. Sebab bila kita handle dementia atau Alzheimer's patient ini, dia punya stress itu tinggi sikit. Macam kita layan budak- macam kids masih tak faham benda, tak faham bahasa. Bila kita cakap sikit, mula dia dah merajuk, paling muka. So, diaorang pun boleh spend time sikit dengan ahli keluarga sendiri. Sebab bila nak handle dementia ini, kita kena one-on-one dengan mereka ini dengan masa yang terlalu banyak sebba kita tak boleh biarkan mereka macam dia sendiri ke. Nanti dia akan lagi cepatkan process dementia itu.
So, it actually helps them in terms of slowing down the dementia. Okay. Do you have any advice or tips for caregivers out there who are taking care of people with dementia?
Nasihat atau advice saya, kita kena belajar tentang apa itu penyakit Alzheimer's, apa itu dementia. Then kita dah belajar tentang ilmu itu - dah dapat info, kita kena tahu dia punya macam mana nak cakap personality pesakit itu. Sebab setiap orang - setap pesakit, personality dia lain-lain so kita kena faham. Faham dia, apa dia nak, kita tak boleh tidakkan dia. Macam dia cakap sesuatu, kita kena cakap yes, betul, betul. Tak bole cakap salah. Sebab kita cakap salah, nanti dia macam, dia mula marah, dia punya mood swing berubah. So kita kena cakap dengan dia lemah lembut, eye contatc, body contact semua, pastu kita kena cakap dengan suara yang lembut. Pastu kita kena faham dia.
So like be patient.
Be patient, sabar.
Sabar and also understand where they are coming from.
So, thank you so much Adam. I think we've learnt so much about how to care for people with dementia and Alzheimer's. And thank you for your time as well. And thank you.