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Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Jul 22 1:38pm | Replies (6)

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@boppi

Thank you for your thoughtful insight! I will try this as I find making choices is getting much harder for my sweetie.

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Fully agree. I have also found this out with my wife. If I give her choices she likes to see them and sometimes say she will have all of them. Only one I tell her. Everyday is different and unpredictable but we all smile and carry on. My biggest challenge these days is the constant talking and wanting to go home (we have lived here for 17 years but she does not remember -) thinks she came here for a holiday and now wants it to end.

I've been giving my husband visual choices for quite a while now and it is so much easier than for him to struggle to give me an answer. He usually can't tell me "what" he wants to drink, so when he says he wants something to drink, i start off with asking him if he wants cold or hot and then go from there. I used to show him the choices of what we could have for side dishes with dinner but I've stopped doing that because I know what he likes 🙂 and he just wouldn't know, so I made the choice for him and he doesn't complain about my choice. When it comes to clothes, I give him those visuals as well, because he can't picture the colors in his mind when I ask if he wants the gray shirt or the blue one and when he points to it, he THEN says "the blue one". And it's those little moments that mean so much to me and to him cuz he remembers, if only for a moment. I think both of you will get much satisfaction by letting you're sweetie see his choices. Good luck and hugs to you