How to Plan for a Disaster with Someone Who Has Dementia
Caregivers often have their hands full with their day-to-day responsibilities. Planning for a tornado, hurricane, wildfire, earthquake, flood or other natural disaster often isn’t on the radar. Happily The Hartford has developed a 44-page guide, called The Calm Before the Storm to help a caregiver to someone with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or some other form of dementia. The document was prepared by the MIT AgeLab and The Hartford Advance 50 Team which is an in-house team at Hartford that studies issues on aging.
The brochure does a pretty thorough walk through the steps that you need to take to prepare you and your loved one for a natural disaster. The major parts include:
- The Calm Before the Storm
- When to Start Planning? Long Before Disaster Strikes!
- Start with Conversations
- Then, Take Action
- A Disaster Is Imminent – What Should You Do?
- Can You Stay – or Should You Go?
- Getting Out of Harm’s Way
- Your Time Away
- The Return Home
- Planning Makes a Difference
- Checklists
- Resource
The checklist section alone is worth the trip. Check it out.
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