Try to Avoid These Mistakes When Caregiving for Someone Living With Alzheimer's
Insisting you are right because, well, you know better. You don’t have dementia. People living with dementia (PLWD) have an increasingly limited ability to understand the world as we see it. Therefore, we need to learn to see the world from their view. When we do this, we don’t argue if they say that they haven’t eaten all day even though lunch was an hour ago. We just say, “Really? Then we’d better get you a snack.”
Read the full article on HealthCentral to learn more about mistakes to avoid when caring for a person who is living with dementia:
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