People Behind The Elderly

We all know elder people are slower and physically behind younger people, but older people are also behind younger people mentally. With age it becomes harder to remember, harder to act quickly, and harder to process things. The elder often experience confusion and disorientation. When they lack awareness they are experiencing confusion and disorientation. More signs of confusion and disorientation is hallucinating, not caring as much for personal hygiene, being hostile, and not being able to follow simple commands. Sometimes being confused and disorientated is temporary caused by stress, depression, both, drugs, or alcohol. Sometimes confusion and disorientation is caused by dementia or alzheimer's. It is known that the older you are the less non-important things you remember. Like what you had for dinner and what not. Some are able to keep most important major memories like what happened in a war they were in, or when someone died. Some elder people lose most, if not all memories due to mental conditions like alzheimer’s. Some elderly people be short tempered due to this. It is …show more content…
Sometimes this won’t help, but it never hurts to try, right? The elder have to be physically and mentally helped. When an individual becomes angry that they can’t remember, always handle it with ease. When giving instructions, rules, or procedures to the elder be sure to make yourself clear. Then ask them about it in a way that doesn’t make them feel dumb. When working with elders it is important to remember they can get hostile, mad, or upset easily. You must know how to handle that and be easy with