Watch for any change. This will include any physical change as well as any change in behavior. Change can be a warning sign of a problem. However, being able to recognize change starts with you knowing the person and what is normal for him or her.
Watch the person as they perform daily activities in the home. You are more likely to see problems when a person has difficulty performing an activity that has always been very routine.
Pain is what the person says it is. You cannot see another person’s pain. It is important to believe what they say, try to understand how it affects them and then help them seek relief.
A service of the US National Library of Medicine. Contains information on a wide variety of health topics, including stroke and heart attack.
visit: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/stroke.html
Provides information on how to respond when symptoms of a heart attack develop.
visit: www.heart.org
The leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer's care, support and research. The association has a special web page further describing the 10 warning signs of Alzheimer’s.
visit: www.alz.org/index.asp
A division of the National Institutes of Health. The mission of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is to reduce the burden of neurological disease - a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, by people all over the world.
visit: www.ninds.nih.gov