Like with any illness, the fundamental ways to manage ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is reasonably simple. The basic criteria of good eating habits, proper sleep patterns, and a caring, safe environment at home, school, or at the workplace are key here. Listed below are a few lifestyle changes to manage ADHD effectively. Get started with these right away and see the quality of life improve, for you as a caretaker, and for your family member with ADHD.

• Start the day with a routine. Wake up at the same time every day. Perform the routine activities of brushing, bathing, dressing up, and getting ready for school or work, preferably in the same order daily.
• To carry out these tasks effortlessly, maintain your house organized in a simple, neat manner. Assign all the things in your home a specific place and place them back there after use. This will ensure an orderly practice that anyone, especially a person with ADHD, can follow.
• A healthy meal plan is important, for everyone, especially the family member with ADHD. Ensure meal preps are done in advance and nutritious natural fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, oils, dairy, and pulses are included in the food throughout the day. Also, being adequately hydrated and ensuring medications, if any, are had on time is necessary.
• Maintain a systematic physical exercise schedule that the person with ADHD enjoys. It is important to keep them busy mentally and physically to the extent that they are not pushed beyond their limits or kept idle for a long time. Sports, arts, music, dance, yoga, any structured activity like these could be of help to expend their enormous energy constructively.
• Ensure you and your family member with ADHD enjoy an undisturbed sleep through the night. For this, first set up a tranquil area in the house to unwind the mind and relax. Pleasantly aromatic essential oil candles can help quieten the mind and body; you can light them safely in the room. Then make sure the bedroom environment is devoid of electronic distractions to support a calm, restive sleep. Sufficient sleep ensures the body is well-rested and reduces hyperactivity, which will regulate a balanced mood and help the mind focus and pay attention throughout the following day.
• Be healthy and stay positive. A calm and focussed mind can think better and make sensible decisions. Accept your family member is differently wired in the brain and learn to deal with them with patience and love. Consistency is crucial for people having ADHD, no doubt, but trying to be a strict regimental perfectionist will not help you, or the person you are taking care of. So learn to be light and include some humor in your personality.

Predictability is a unique trait found in and expected by most people with ADHD. It is easier for them to perform tasks and lead a normal life if they know what to expect, where to expect that and what is expected of them. Establishing simple to follow routines with easy visual aids can encourage people with ADHD to manage their lives better.