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Family members or professional caregivers who do everything for older adults with Alzheimer's disease may just be wanting to help, but one University of Alberta researcher says that creating excess dependency may rob the patients of their independence and self-worth. U of A psychologist Tiana Rust, who recently completed her doctoral program, says her research indicated that caregivers adopted a "dependency support script," assuming control of tasks they believed patients seemed no longer capable of doing for themselves...

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Source: http://www.kiefit.com/Health_Fitness/training-caregivers-not-to-underestimate-the-abilities-of-people-with-alzheimers-disease-promoting-independence/

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