What If I Visit and They Don’t Know Who I Am?
Care partners regularly ask me about one of their deepest fears. The fear usually goes like this: at some point, you’ll walk in to visit your
March 7, 2021
Tag: confusion
What if I visit and he doesn’t know who I am?
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March 17, 2019
Don’t ask someone with dementia if they “know your name” or “remember you”
If I can, I always opt to ditch my name tag in a dementia care environment. I let my friends with dementia decide what my
July 24, 2018
Dementia gives us gifts, let’s not reject them
It had been six months since I’d seen Dot, my favorite resident. Dot was what I like to call “pleasantly confused.” She was in her mid-90s,
July 26, 2017
"You’re not my son.”
Alicia danced down the hallway, both hands steadily on her walker. She moved her hips from side to side, singing a little song, and smiled
June 20, 2017
Elsie & The Boy Who Wasn’t There
Elsie had been acting strangely for a couple days now. It was our morning meeting, and the team had assembled in the dining room to
June 10, 2017
In dementia world, you can live wherever you want
Picture from Klavon’s in Pittsburgh, PA (2017) I was busy setting up an old fashioned “ice cream parlor” look where the Nurses’ Station was at the
January 6, 2017
Lunch & Old Friends
A memory of mine from two years ago: I had taken a few of my residents out to lunch when I noticed a woman across
August 6, 2016
“Dad, do you remember my name?”
Oh, please don’t ask him that, I thought to myself. The old man stood in the doorway, smiling, confused; an uncertain grin, looking at his
July 24, 2016
Mistaken for a Man.
“Get away from him! That’s my husband and he wants to come with me!” Gladys yelled. Gladys stood, holding Margaret’s walker, pointing at her female
March 31, 2015
