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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