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Holding the Person with Dementia to a Higher Emotional Standard

All human beings share emotion.  We freely feel sad, happy, angry, excited, frustrated, proud, frightened, relieved, anxious, affectionate, embarrassed, satisfied, guilty, confident; and I could go on and on to list all the positive and negative feelings we experience. In a recent blog by Dr. G. Allen Power, he expresses a very powerful thought process and how people view a person living with dementia.  Although he focusses on the research on ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) used for dementia symptoms, this paragraph struck me as completely valid in my experience. “We get angry, sad, frustrated or anxious, but people with dementia have

February 12, 2020
#Alzheimer's

Reality Orientation… Good or Bad?

When researching reality orientation therapy, there is plenty out there to support that there is benefit to the therapy. Reality orientation is providing the person living with dementia reminders, tools, and constant correction to reorient to the reality that we live in.  If it’s Wednesday, and the person living with dementia believes it is Sunday, reality orientation would include correcting the person, showing them a calendar, and other devices to prove that it is Wednesday. Some believe reality orientation will improve a person’s cognitive functioning, jog the memory, and stunt cognitive decline. The alternative to reality orientation therapy is validation

March 7, 2019

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