How are you sleeping at night? How are you managing your day to day stressors? And if you are providing care for someone with Alzheimer's disease, what toll is it taking on your physical and emotional health?

Stress, when it persists over time, causes vascular changes and chemical imbalances that are damaging to the brain and other cells in your body.

In this session we'll help you understand stress and how it affects your body.  You will develop coping strategies to deal with the stress and you will learn about the impact of attitude and self-esteem on stress and how important it is to ask for help.

If you are a care partner for a person living with Alzheimer's disease, go to Session 9: Managing Stress of the Seeds of Hope Family Learning series here in HelpForDementia.  It has more specific information for care partners.

Learning Objectives

When you have completed this session, you will be able to:

1. Define stress and how it affects health.
2. Describe how to identify signs of stress in the body.
3. Identify coping strategies used to reduce and manage stress.
4. Understand the importance of asking for help to maintain physical and mental health.

Session 8 includes the following parts:

Part 1: What is Stress?

Part 2: Symptoms of Stress

Part 3: Signs of Caregiver Stress

Part 4: Reducing Your Stress

Part 5: Relaxation Techniques for Stress Relief

Part 6: Make a Healthy Lifestyle Choice

Part 7: My Personal Action Plan

Session Summary

Work through the various parts of the session at your leisure.  Move from one part to another at your own pace and in the order that makes sense to you, based on your own needs and interests.

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