Tips on Dementia

Dementia, mainly due to Alzheimer's Disease, is becoming more and more common in Singapore.

The progression of this illness, from inception to end-stage,could take 5 to 7 years from the time a person is identified with the illness. At the end-stage, the sufferer cannot feed or take care of himself.

Here is a tip. Once identified that Dementia is on the way, let the sufferer drink using a drinking straw. Let drinking from straw become an insinct. At the end-stage, the sufferer could only do things by instinct. He will not be able to spoon food or drink from a cup on his own. If sucking up from a straw becomes an instinctive action, then at least he can still drink by instinct.

This will solve the problem of spoon-feeding or syringe-feed him whenever he needs to drink.