Dementia Care

Over one third of dementia cases are potentially preventable!  That’s right.  According to a study published July 2017 in The Lancet 24 leading experts from around the world found 35% of cases may be preventable.

My mother saw my father as a calm man who never raised his voice in anger.

In our art and music program, the participants all have some form of dementia. They sit around a big table, family style, with the volunteers scattered amongst them.

I read a provocative quote the other day by Steven Sabat, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Georgetown University, USA, that got me thinking

A gentleman was recently moved from one room in his care residence to another. Seems benign enough; however, it’s not what happened but rather how that is cause for alarm. The primary carer, his wife, had made careful plans with the staff team to come in the day of the move and occupy her husband…

You see I think we have this dementia thing all wrong.  After all, who says we, the so-called cognitively sound, have it right?