You can learn to remember happily http://t.co/bZE23XOo - hope for boomers who might say if you can remember the 60s you weren't there...
250 days ago
Off to blabber on at the Kent Care Conf (I'd say speak, but that'd be both an over & an understatement) I'm looking forward to listening too
255 days ago
I've been saying it for ages. Now World Alz Rep says 27m people have undiagnosed dementia. Same in UK too. 750,000? Pah. Try doubling it.
255 days ago
Dementia and our relationship with those who live with it
Posted Oct 20 2011 3:43pm
In a society which attaches less value to the person with dementia who may seem to contribute little or nothing, surely it is more useful to try to work out what the reality for that person might be, rather than imposing our own 'fiction' of it.
We need to give value and dignity to their symptoms and experience of the disease. And we need to try to understand them before we condemn and stigmatise them because if we do, then we won't. This takes three things: time, long-term dialogue and an appreciative and meaningful exploration of a person's life journey.
In a society which attaches less value to the person with dementia who may seem to contribute little or nothing, surely it is more useful to try to work out what the reality for that person might be, rather than imposing our own 'fiction' of it.
We need to give value and dignity to their symptoms and experience of the disease. And we need to try to understand them before we condemn and stigmatise them because if we do, then we won't. This takes three things: time, long-term dialogue and an appreciative and meaningful exploration of a person's life journey.
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