Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Communication in Alzheimer's World

This isn't simple to do, but it is necessary -- you need to start accepting that when a person suffering from Alzheimer's says something they believe to be true it is in fact a reality. It is their reality.
By Bob DeMarco


It takes a lot of energy, learning, and patience to deal with the Alzheimer's disease.

In order to begin the process of dealing with communication in a world fill with Alzheimer's you first need to make a simple important decision -- you want to decrease both your stress as caregiver, and the stress of the person suffering from Alzheimer's.