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Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, engage in other inappropriate or repetitive behaviors, or refuse to let caregivers help them.

Over 95 percent of patients experience these and other neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia, which tend to fluctuate over time and vary in intensity. They’re often the reason people with dementia end up in assisted-living facilities or nursing homes, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. At some point, families and friends trying to help at home simply can’t manage.