senile dementia

Singapore has finally touched on senile dementia but the media unfortunately has touched on the intermediate and severe senile dementia cases and keeps adding stress on caregivers

And..be realistic - how many of us have sewing machines, know how to use them at home and have the time to sew?! Both fathers and mothers need to work n by the time they get home they are dead tired. Can't anyone help solve the problem using our now everyday - realistic routine?

wat's not touched on was beginning/mild senile dementia. Healthcare organisations and media should do something to educate senior citizens - not caregivers - what senile dementia is about because caregivers - of course - they KNOW wat's senile dementia - caregivers are third-party observers after all

thus wat's missing is first-party information: media should let senior citizens know what is senile dementia, the common symptoms: forgetfulness (keep asking same questions again and again), throw tantrums, staying in the same spot for ten minutes playing with plastic bags, being negative, walking to and fro the same place in the same direction mumbling to themselves, imitating people's actions and speech, lying like a child, insisting that they are not senile when they are, etc

the media then immediately follows up: encourage senior citizens: know the symptoms, where to seek treatment and medical help, this will greatly ease the mental torment and suffering of the caregivers a lot, especially to the majority who cannot afford foreign caregivers, not only that, all caregivers - be it family members or foreign - mental and emotional state will be greatly balanced as it's not easy for working family members to deal with supervisor/manager/target stress, children stress, financial stress and elderly illness stress.

Make that island-wide: advertise on tv would be a good idea

It's not embarrassing, not shameful, not supertistious, not wrong, not not having fillai piety to educate the senior citizens about senile dementia. Senior citizens are human too and they have the right to know about their illness in their age: what is, where and how to treat senile dementia