Be aware | Be caring | Be patient | Be understanding
This month I want to be the stage to help to raise awareness and challenge the stigma that surrounds Dementia. September 2019 will mark the eighth World Alzheimer’s Month™, an international campaign to raise awareness of Dementia and challenge stigma. Read More …
What is bad for your heart is also bad for your brain. With a healthy lifestyle you cannot completely prevent Dementia, but you can reduce the chance of it. On average, people who avoid the most important risk factors get dementia until about 5 years later. Read More …
Is therapeutic lying to your loved one or patient okay when the truth would be distressing to him or her? It requires the caregiver or family member to give up trying to force the person with Dementia to accept reality and surrender instead to the fact that the patient is living in another mental and Read More …
It is common knowledge that almost everyone wants to know as soon as possible that his or her partner has died. That you leave the transmission of that bad news to close relatives, is a token of respect for how relatives (want to) experience death with each other. Moreover, mourning and burial are strongly culturally and religiously determined, something that you as an outsider are not always aware of. Read More …