When Persons Living with Dementia Become Funny and Entertaining

George then called his granddaughter and said, “Sandra, I have a job for you. Drive me to the internet!”Marie MarleyAlzheimer's Reading RoomMy experience is that people living with Alzheimer’s can say some pretty amusing things.Many times the person is aware and even proud he or she has said something humorous. When this happens we laugh with them laugh – not at them. Soemtimes we are startled or surprised.These moments can be among the most precious we will ever have with our loved ones.There is still a lot going on the brains of persons living with dementia.If you learn to engage a person living with dementia in discussion, you just might be pleasantly surprised.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: Here are some examples:My first stories are about one of the ladies with Alzheimer’s I volunteer to visit in a local memory care facility. I’ll call her Ruth. Ruth tells me the same story every time I visit her, except she sometimes includes new information or adds a twist to some part of the story.She tells me that during World War II the Army used to bus young ladies to a base on Friday nights to dance with the soldiers. Ruth was one of those girls. She was a great dancer, unlike many of the men.She tells me that most of them couldn’t dance and they just “stomped out a two-step.” When she tells me that she imitates them in a most humorous way, lively stomping her feet up and down.Ruth also tells me that when the girls arrived at the base the men loo...
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