Help your loved one living with memory loss live a rich, full life. Gulf Coast Memory Care provides a warm and enriching environment for people with Alzheimer’s or another memory loss illness.
Help your loved one living with memory loss live a rich, full life. Gulf Coast Memory Care in Estero Florida provides a warm and enriching environment for people with Alzheimer’s or another memory loss illness.
"I appreciate the overall care at GCMC. It is clean and secure. They keep residents engaged and entertained. The food is excellent!!"
- Bill & Bonny B
"They did everything possible to help us know it was ok to leave her in their care. They've given me the support!"
- Son of Loved One
"Gulf Coast was the best community in Lee County, I felt. My husband is well cared for and the staff is incredible."
- Spouse of Loved One
A Caring Team
By working closely with each resident and their family, we can help your loved one build new connections, continue to grow as a person, and even find new joy and fulfillment that may not have seemed possible. We provide support to you and your family, helping you adjust to the changes occurring during this transitional period in your loved one’s life.
Support
Working with you and your family, our compassionate caregivers will learn your loved one’s life story, helping us speak to their sense of self and enabling us to treat them with the highest level of honor and dignity. Within this plan, we will also record every area in which your loved one needs care and assistance, including with activities of daily living, and their care plan will be revisited regularly so we can adjust their care requirements as needed.
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Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia. Dementia presents with a loss of thinking, remembering, and reasoning skills. It generally creates problems with a person's daily life and activities. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia among older people. Other types of dementia include frontotemporal disorders and Lewy body dementia.
Memory problems are usually one of the first signs of Alzheimer's disease. This is not the case for everyone. Each individual may have different initial symptoms. A decline in other aspects of thinking, such as finding the right words, vision/spatial issues, and impaired reasoning or judgment, may also signal the very early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, is a condition that may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease—but not everyone with MCI will develop Alzheimer's. In addition to memory problems, movement difficulties and problems with the sense of smell have been linked to MCI.
Alzheimer's disease progresses in several stages: preclinical, early (also called mild), middle (moderate), and late (severe). During the preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease, people seem to be symptom-free, but toxic changes are taking place in the brain. A person in the early stage of Alzheimer's may exhibit the signs listed above. As Alzheimer's disease progresses to the middle stage, memory loss and confusion grow worse, and people may have problems recognizing family and friends. As Alzheimer's disease becomes more severe, people lose the ability to communicate. They may sleep more, lose weight, and have trouble swallowing. Eventually, they will need total care.
Gulf Coast Memory Care
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