A warm reply from Swapna Kishore

From: Swapna Kishore
To: suryacad@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, 22 March 2012, 7:58
Subject: Fwd: [dementia care notes] My 83 years olf mother needs dementia care taking nurse
Hello

I am Swapna Kishore, the person behind Dementia Care Notes. I am sorry to hear of your situation.

Firstly, Dementia Care Notes is not an organization, and is not an agency that supplies attendants. I cannot send you an attendant for your mother.

Below, I am sharing some tips on how you can get an attendant and use one, in case you need tips.

Getting a suitable trained attendant is very difficult. Before I give you some tips/ leads on locating attendants, I suggest that you read this page on how to make the use of such an attendant effective. Most people face a lot of problems using attendants, and there are some things to be careful about, and this page is an exhaustive discussion of the topic. It also has an orientation note for the attendants that can be downloaded. See:

http://dementia-care-notes.in/caregivers/toolkit/using-trained-attendants-for-dementia-home-care/

I do not know which city you are in, but here are some tips on searching for attendants:


Check the availability of a local chapter of ARDSI at , or contact ARDSI using their contact information
Most cities have elder helplines run by a local NGO with the help of the Police Department. These helplines often have lists of agencies that supply attendants and nurses, and also lists of old age homes and other such facilities.
A list of local services can usually be obtained by surfing the Internet using keywords and the name of the city. For example, if looking for resources in Delhi, you can google for “home nursing Delhi”, “dementia care Delhi”, “old age homes Delhi.”
Also try searching using variants of the city name. For Delhi, for example, look for “New Delhi”. “Dilli”, “South Delhi”, or “Gurgaon”, “Faridabad”, “Noida”, “NCR”.
The reception/ nurses at local hospitals are often able to supply the names of agencies that supply attendants/ nurses for home care.


You can read more tips on my page here: http://dementia-care-notes.in/resources/city-wise/ and also find links to more resources there. I have resource pages for several cities in India, such as Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Kerala cities, etc.

If you are on Facebook and want to get in touch with other caregivers, you can also considering joining the groups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/195661533813916/ and https://www.facebook.com/groups/ARDSI/ and posting your query there. (I am on Facebook, too, with the email id: cyber.swapnakishore@gmail.com)

Hope this helps.

Wishing you the very best,

Regards,

Swapna Kishore


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [dementia care notes] My 83 years olf mother needs dementia care taking nurse
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:58:27 -0700
From: Ram
To: Dementia Care Notes
CC: dementiacarenotes@gmail.com


My 83 years old mother needs dementia care taking nurse. Could you please send a caretaker?