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Does anyone have tips for communicating with someone with dementia?
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: 1 day ago | Replies (52)Comment receiving replies
Yes, and it is difficult.
Try not to expect. It's very nice to continue to ask, just don't be disappointed if you haven't been able to communicate. Be careful not to be corrective. You might take the belt and thank him, and wait to fetch the charger so that he isn't embarrassed about having don the wrong thing (again). It isn't that he isn't listening or that he doesn't hear.
He is trying; his brain is not cooperating.
You may find the milk in the clothes closet, socks on his hands, keys in the trash bin, ice cream in the microwave. Fill this world in which nothing is as it seems with kindness.
Communicate how much you care for him. Play his all time favorite music. Write those notes that he can fold and unfold.
This doesn't get easier.
Bless you both.
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@gently I love what you wrote: “Fill this world in which nothing is as it seems with kindness.” And communicating how much I care speaks to me.
I find myself grouchy so much of the time. I try to live by what you are advocating, but it’s just so hard, he’s a know it all and always wants to prove everyone wrong, he has really clever disguises when he can direct them, to hide deficits. So I get caught up in normalcy until a reality moment rears its crazy self, it upsets me and I react poorly. His PCP told him he really presents well…. He’s a trickster!
Anyway, thank you for your words of wisdom. I saw that your post was from last year, I hope you’re doing okay.
Blessings, Linda