People who have family with dementia, what are tips of communicating with them?
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Always talk to them about things that happened in their own distant past. They can usually remember the distant past. If you talk to them about their childhood, they remember everything.
Buy them an IPOD, and create a play list of songs that were popular in the year in which the demented person was a teenager. They will LOVE listening to that music. They will remember it, and the music will wake them up a little bit and they might dance, even in bed.
Do NOT spend your time correcting them or making them feel guilty for forgetting your name. Instead, even if they don't recognize you, talk to them as if they know you. Just...don't insist that they remember you.
Buy them an IPOD, and create a play list of songs that were popular in the year in which the demented person was a teenager. They will LOVE listening to that music. They will remember it, and the music will wake them up a little bit and they might dance, even in bed.
Do NOT spend your time correcting them or making them feel guilty for forgetting your name. Instead, even if they don't recognize you, talk to them as if they know you. Just...don't insist that they remember you.