How to Accept Alzheimer's and Operate in Alzheimer's World

The Alzheimer's patient starts to feel different. They feel your acceptance. Instead of thinking you are the enemy, they start to feel that you are the protector. Their security blanket.By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomWhen a person has Alzheimer's disease or another type of dementia they are often difficult to deal with.The behaviors they express are often difficult to accept.As caregivers we just don't understand them very well.Communicating in Alzheimer's WorldIt can be hard to deal with a person living with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. It is hard to understand that a person can't remember.Harder to accept that when they can't remember, they will do things that are completely foreign to our personal frame of reference.Each of us has emotions and feelings. Alzheimer's has a way of bringing out the worst of these feelings and emotions in us.Dementia Patients are People TooThe challenge -- learning to deal with a person living with Alzheimer's on their own terms. Learning to deal with Alzheimer's disease.Many caregivers come to the conclusion that the person living with Alzheimer'sis not the person they knew. The person they knew most or all of their life. Is it possible to deal with a stranger? Is this supposed stranger likable?Can you like someone that continually makes you angry, frustrated and sad?The Frightened, Angry, Anxious, Mean Dementia PatientLet me ask you a simple question.Is caregiving about you how you feel? Or, is it about bringing to the pe...
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