dementia

Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experience__ven without recall. The psychological present lasts about three seconds. We experience the present even when we have dementia. The emotional pain caused by callous treatment or unkind talk occurs during that period. The moods and actions of people with dementia are expressions of what they have experienced, whether they can still use language and recall, or not.

Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn__ matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

My caregiver mantra is to remember 'The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.

Many caregivers share that they often feel alone, isolated, and unappreciated. Mindfulness can offer renewed hope for finding support and value for your role as a caregiver_It is an approach that everyone can use. It can help slow you down some so you can make the best possible decisions for your care recipient. It also helps bring more balance and ease while navigating the caregiving journey.

Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all.

_wondering, not for the first time, if there was a kind of dark bliss built into dementia: an immunity from death and abandonment, a way of fixing a point in time so that nothing can change, nothing can be rewritten, no one can leave.

You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.

Her memories got dizzy and fell out of her head.

She__ forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara__ mother, who had dementia)

Her ability to use language, that thing that most separates humans from animals, was leaving her, and she was feeling less and less human as it departed. She's said a tearful good-bye to okay some time ago.