Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Eldercare
Reply to "moving mom to AL--she is in denial"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve reframed my thinking as a caregiver that an important goal is helping the person with dementia feel like themselves without disease as much as possible. To that end, “denial” is a very powerful medicine. When you’re able to create a safe, comfortable moment for the person denial can step in and erase for them the holes and the inabilities and in their head, they’re just eating chips and watching tv as their full self. They don’t notice that they can’t remember who is sitting next to them or why the living room looks different. I agree with the others to let go of logical persuasion completely. It’s not the goal any more. [/quote] This. Forget about logic and reasoning as they simply do not work. Focus on meeting the person with dementia where they are. This involves "therapeutic lying" and immersing yourself into their reality as much as possible. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
