Here are ten communications tips that can help Alzheimer’s caregivers improve their daily life.
Sometimes it helps to look at each situation from the perspective, or from out of the eyes of the person living with dementia.
by Alzheimer’s Reading Room
Dotty’s Ten Tips for Communicating with a Person Living with Dementia
- You know what makes me feel safe, secure, and happy? A smile.
- Did you ever consider this? When you get tense and uptight it makes me feel tense and uptight.
- Instead of getting all bent out of shape when I do something that seems perfectly normal to me, and perfectly nutty to you, why not just smile at me? It will take the edge off the situation all the way around.
- Please try to understand and remember it is my short term memory, my right now memory, that is gone — don’t talk so fast, or use so many…
