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Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Nov 29, 2024 | Replies (5)
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I agree with your thoughts about self esteem. My husband suffers from dementia and gets very frustrated when I don't quite understand what he's talking about. He sometimes starts a sentence but trails off and turns his attention to something else. I think this is because he just can't finish his thought so he gives up. The other day he cried because he thought his caregiver and I had been laughing at him 2 days earlier. He heard our laughter in the next room and assumed it was directed at him.
He still needs and deserves to feel respected. His mental anguish is more painful than any physical pain.
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I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to have words unavailable to you. My husband would do the same thing: start a sentence and trail off. Often, he would look over at a newspaper or magazine and grab some words from the page to add on at the end of the sentence knowing that his thought was incomplete, and he needed a few more words that he couldn't come up with himself. The longer he has had ALZ, the quieter he has become. Trying to communicate has become just too difficult.