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Blaming and anger: How do you deal with it?
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Jan 31 8:00pm | Replies (87)Comment receiving replies
Dealing with a person with AZ is difficult at best. Try to use child raising skills. Praise for good behavior. Divert and distract from bad behavior. Change the household routines to your benefit even if it requires little white lies. For example: pick up the mail, pay the bills and marvel at how there's no mail because everything is done online these days. Establish your own bank account. Pay bills online and hide your computer. Find a " sitter" if needed. Lose the keys to the car. Say things once only. Smile a lot.
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@gilkesl M husband with worsening dementia, gets upset if he feels I am treating him as a child. I have been living by these rules,but Ifind them difficult:
Developing special sense dealing with people with memory issues begins with three Golden Rules:
GOLDEN RULES OF DEMENTIA
-Don’t ask direct questions
-Listen to the expert – the person with dementia – and learn from them
-Don’t contradict.
It works. I don’t argue with him or have unreasonable expectations. I never use the word “Remember when…”
I have trouble being so submissive in what was a very equal relationship before this wretched disease.