Bonding with an Alzheimer's Patient

It never dawned on me that I was losing Dotty. It actually seemed to me like we were doing more not less. We focused on what we could do, and more often than not the results were better than I could have ever imagined. By +Bob DeMarco +Alzheimer's Reading Room  In yesterday's article, Caution – Avoid These Mistakes at All Costs, Marie Marley included a sentence that caught my attention. "But the most painful thing you will ever face as an Alzheimer's caregiver is that you slowly lose the person you love". I fully accept that this is the way that many people feel, and that is what they believe. I have heard or read it all. The Long Goodbye. This is not the person I knew. I can't take them out. Blah Blah. I have a very different belief. I believe that there is more to persons living with dementia than most people can imagine. So you see, it is not the persons living with dementia that are the problem, it is the persons stigmatizing the persons living with dementia that are the problem. Why am I getting the feeling that an awful lot of people are not going to like this article? Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading Room Email: Let me ask you some simple questions. Does your Alzheimer's patient follow you are around? When they can't see you do they call out your name? Do they wonder where you are? When you go out, or when you go away for a while, do they constantly ask where you are? And ask, when you are coming back? Well if they do any or a...
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