Aggressive Behavior in People with Dementia | Linda Ercoli, PhD | UCLAMDChat

UCLA psychologist Linda Ercoli, PhD, educates caregivers about the causes of verbal and physical aggressive behavior in patients with advancing dementia. She introduces behavioral management techniques that can be effective in reducing and managing aggression.

[rebeccah.]

My husband is beginning to show signs of dementia- very mild right now, I love him so much, I’m going to help him all I can and God’s Grace help us with this real life.

[savgoulis]

Who the hell put thumbs down for this video? This woman's education & understanding is awesome x

[marisapaola]

Wonderful video. The best I've seen. Beware of knives on kitchen tables. My father snatched a knife off the table and tried to stab my eye out. He wasn't kidding, he was much stronger than me happened within a microsecond, I had to grab his ear. I was fighting for my life. Why all because I said ok in a minute, I'll just put the washing down. That was enough to set him off. Beware.

[ataylor]

I THANK GOD FOR PUTTING THIS ON MY MIND TO LOOK FOR THIS ON HERE..IVE BEEN CARING FOR MY MOTHER FOR 3YRS..I ALSO HAVE 3 KIDS AND I DEVOTED SOOO MUCH TO HER..I FELT SHE WASNT GRATEFUL...I HAVE 2 OTHER SIBLINGS WHO WASNT A BIG HELP !...I FEEL THIS IS OUR MOTHER...WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE ME WITH ALL OF THIS...HELP OUT SOMETIMES...BUT THANK GOD I PRESSED THIS..I REALLY THOUGHTMY MOTHER HATED ME...I FEEL SO AWFUL...THANK YOU FOR THIS..AND GOD BLESS!!

[lunarmodule]

This is the best video I've seen on dementia. I've already experienced much of this with my loved one. Anyone watching it as a caregiver try your best. Remember, your loved one is also regressing back to their childhood. That may help you in some instances.

[mayamaker]

My spouse has been diagnosed with early dementia and has been put on medication. For 50 years now, I have been observing his strange behaviour, lack of responsibility for decisions made, lack of social contact, and always needing to be in the limelight. Now I know it's Narcissistic Personality Disorder. This coupled with this recent diagnosis is worrying. He has always had an anger management problem, and if I ask why he did something, his reaction is physical aggression and I have to stay out of reach. I am preparing for the future by taking over all responsibilities so that I do not have to interact more than is necessary.
He is an insulin dependent diabetic and has always been very undisciplined about following his medical or diet routine. This isn't new. At 50 he had a quad bypass surgery and the attitude was the same. He also wears hearing aids.
This video is excellent.

[iflkctk]

Thank you, I’m currently taking care of my Mom who is a stroke victim with dementia starting. This is helping me understand her aggressive behavior at times, and refusal of almost everything. 😩

[wahkuna_hoes]

With a heavy heart I did a preliminary YouTube search for aggression in elderly people because I'm caregiving for my grandmother and I have suspicions but no medical records I'm not going to lie part of my heart saying when she said Don't expect them to remember who you but I couldn't give up on my grandmother I love her so much

[gabbylopez]

I remember caring for dementia and alzheimer's residents. It was frustrating because it was difficult to understand what they wanted or because they were repeating behaviors. I had to stay patient and kind despite being frustrated. I had a 99 year old lady punch me in the nose and bruise it up pretty good. Some residents were really nice though.

[nonnywinner]

My mom is going through mid to late stage dementia with parkinson disease. She is paranoid and sometimes extremely aggressive verbally, her selfcare hygiene is major issue right now.
Helpful video as I am learning everything I can about the disease.

[vijay]

Please pray for healing of dementia patient

[sheliarossell]

Moving a person from where they live to new location, then bringing them back can be very upsetting to a person with illness. A person will always try to call others trying to get back to area use to live.

[shayanfazeli]

Dementia and Alzheimer’s are one of the saddest things this universe has to offer. Watch “the father”, sir anthony hopkins did a great job portraying dementia 😔. Thank you for the great video.

[albertwertz]

Fantastic video. Should be a training video for all Health Care staff. Thank you very much! Albert Wertz, DO

[ramonakearns]

This video is very informative. I'm caring for 102yrs old auntie. She's very independent and recently she's acting aggressively. I'm learning to know what triggers her. She doesn't want me to help clean her house yet her bathroom is a little messy. She's constantly saying she doesn't need anyone to clean her house. She's cussing me out and I have to keep myself calm. There are times when I ask her if she needs something done she always says no. So I'm talking gently and calm. Here lately it's been difficult. This video is helpful. I will been conscious of what I do and say

[nahidsultana]

My father has delusional problem. He always said that he is seeing someone who come to his house to meet my sister in law in a very intimate way. And my brother and his wife yelling at him and arguing with him every time. It’s really upsetting. I sent them video links, google links to educate them about dementia and delusion. But they don’t want to listen to them or don’t feel interest to read. Don’t know what to do. My mother died 11 years ago. I’ve told my father many times to get married. But he didn’t agreed. Now this is the consequences happening. In our country there is no good care center or daycare for this type of people. Things are getting worse day by day. Don’t know what is waiting for us in future!

[cricket]

What’s really sad is my brother and I have spoke to doctors about changes we have seen and we could tell something was not right” Doctors Do Not Listen! They always say if you can catch something early” You can treat it more effectively! But Doctors refuse to listen! How does a person fix that? Doctors treat caregivers like they are ignorant or as if we are trying to diagnose and that offends them. We the family, The loved one’s See What is happening and or notice the change and Doctors need to listen. I’m so frustrated at this point because I’m listening and watching videos to learn and teach myself Because Obviously Doctors don’t seem to care until somebody has got hurt or the dementia patients tell the lies of abuse or stilling and get the very person trying so hard to give the best care” They end up in a hot mess of authority’s or police being called or someone has got hurt or dementia patients aren’t taking medication for other health problems and hiding medications or throwing them away and it also comes back as the caregiver problem of not giving medications or just flat out health issues getting worse when unaware of what WE are truly doing. Doctors need to start listening to family loved one’s! You can’t catch something early if Doctors don’t listen or help!! I’m definitely learning from the videos MORE THEN ANY DOCTOR THAT MY MOM HAS! She has several doctors and only one doctor has just now recognized that dementia is happening after 2 years! It’s really sad that Doctors are becoming so blind to helping loved one’s that scream or cry out for help! Then they wonder why people don’t care to even go back to their office or we find a doctor ( usually older one’s that do understand) because these days we got a bunch of Doctors that don’t care what you say or even show them Because they are Know It All Doctors that don’t really care about you or the patients…. They only care about what their science has recently taught them!! Honestly I blame the doctors in today’s world for dementia patients and loved one’s of the patient and caregiver’s going through way more then we should ever need to go through!! It’s totally unfair for a patient because due to Doctors not listening, our loved one’s suffer more and end up in a facility that scares them even more and definitely causes family members to stress more and recent doctors more!!! It’s not fair to pay doctors all this money and all we get back is Nothing or More problems!!

[tajbarbie]

I hate dementia .it makes me so frustrated. This is a very tough job and can be mentality frustrating .They are the most difficult to deal with vs someone who just is elderly and simply need care .

[DrNeill]

As a postdoctoral fellow working with medically fragile individuals in a forensic setting, this was extremely informative and interesting.  Thank you for sharing.

[dcmcneillis]

Much needed in the UK, we have nothing like it and I would have loved to hvae discovered this months ago. Thank you for making the videos publicly available.