Tag: disease

SOLVE their fear of water

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Anosognosia: What is it?

Usually, when I meet people with dementia, they are already in a moderate or advanced stage of the disease process. Most of my experience working

The elevator engineer

Neil was in an early-moderate stage of dementia. He was also fairly young (late 60s) and broad-shouldered. Neil didn’t have much family, but the family

Finding Calm in Repetitive Questions

Like many people with dementia, Lucille had a “phrase” that she used often. Well, it wasn’t so much a “phrase” as it was a line of questioning

10 Steps to Making a Dementia Care Plan

So, things got hectic quickly. Your loved one started acting different. Maybe he or she started losing items around the house. Perhaps they began having

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The Parrot Speaks Spanish

Belinda was ecstatic. “He’s talking to me!” she cried out in Spanish. Belinda was talking about her new best friend—the toy parrot our community kept. Unlike

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