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Caring for someone with dementia
- Author:
- BROTCHIE Jane
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 123p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Caring for someone with dementia can be physically and emotionally exhausting, and it is often difficult to think about what can be done to make the situation easier. This book shows how to cope and seek further help as well as containing detailed information on the illness itself and what to expect in the future. A person with dementia, whose mental abilities are declining, is likely to feel vulnerable and in need of reassurance and support. It is important that those around them do everything they can to help them to retain their sense of identity and their feelings of self worth. Such people will need to remember that: each person with dementia is a unique individual with their own very different experiences of life, their own needs and feelings and their own likes and dislikes. Although there are symptoms of dementia which are common to everyone each person will be affected by their dementia in a different way. Everyone reacts to the experience of dementia in an individual way. The experience means different things to different people. Those caring for a person with dementia will need to take account of their abilities, interests and preferences. They need to be aware that these things may change as the dementia progresses. They should be prepared to respond in a flexible and sensitive way.