The Dementia Hub is your one-stop place for information, resources, support, and connection. The Hub, as we like to call it, is intended for persons living with dementia, as well as the caregivers, families, and friends who support them. Here at The Hub, you'll find current and upcoming programs and events on brain health, dementia, caregiving, and research. The Hub is a place to engage with others, share experiences and ideas, ask questions, and feel connected.

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The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center has published several books for people with dementia and their caregivers. These books are meant to provide guidance, information, and support for those living with dementia.

Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias

Dementia is a serious health challenge, and by some estimates the number of people living with dementia could triple by 2050. While Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia, many related types of dementia also affect adults worldwide, causing loss of cognitive functions such as memory, reason and judgment. Although the diseases that cause dementia have long been considered unrelenting and incurable, recent advances offer hope.

Are there ways you can lower your risk of dementia? Can it be prevented? Can you live well with dementia? If so, how? Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias provides answers to these important questions and more.

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Day to Day 

To empathize means to imagine, as best as you can, what it’s like to live someone else’s life and to seek to understand another person’s experience and reality.

However, reality can be distorted for people living with dementia; trying to make them fit within your reality will cause stress for everyone involved. This doesn’t mean that people living with dementia are far away or lost, but it does mean that the disease impacts the ability of a person with dementia to communicate clearly and process the world in the same way you do.

Seeing life through the eyes of the person with dementia doesn’t mean you have to share the same anxiety, sadness, or agitation. It also doesn’t mean you have to lie or agree with the person’s sense of reality.

Genuine empathy is expressed in our tone of voice, our eyes and in our curiosity to understand the other person’s world. Empathy is offered in our silence, our observing, and in our listening. Feeling empathy toward another person helps them FEEL that there is a space for them just as they are.

Empathy is the understanding that someone else’s world is just as real as yours.

Except from: DAY TO DAY LIVING WITH DEMTNIA: A MAYO CLINIC GUIDE FOR OFFERING CARE AND SUPPORT.

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