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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
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
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
Beverly and her husband stood at the doorway of the care community, pointing fingers (literally) and arguing. “What do you mean, you’re ‘going home!’” she cried. “I’m
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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Aphasia is a disorder that causes someone to lose the ability to speak, or to have difficulty speaking. It is not uncommon for people with
About a month ago, I put a vinyl decal of a bookshelf over one of our doors in Memory Care. It was a test, in
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