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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you have tips on visiting loved ones with dementia? I have trouble not crying, just [b]seeing how much they don't remember but are trying to.[/b] I hear from their closest caregivers that they really appreciate all visits, and thankfully are still very pleasant and not agitated. I have experienced agitation and meanness in the past with other relatives, which was hard in a different way. It didn't make me cry because I could steel myself to it. How do you get through these visits without breaking down? How best to leave a visit if they feel like you just arrived and cycle through the same pleasantries? Should I bring photos? Something else to distract or focus on? Do you think it makes a difference for them to have visitors? [/quote] IME with my parents who have dementia, it's not really that they are "trying to" remember anything. They have their own reality. [/quote]
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