The Emotional Response Matters

Mum’s emotional response matters to me. In the morning when Mum first wakes up, she’s often either smiling from her dreams or initially disoriented and confused about where she is and who I am. If it’s the latter, she looks confused but not frightened. I always introduce myself, and sometimes she laughs at me (with

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Perceptions of Dementia

Perceptions-of-Dementia

You can’t see dementia, you can see how the symptoms of your loved one’s disease presents itself.  It isn’t always that stereotypical picture of old people, wandering confused around a nursing home or sitting blankly in an armchair.  I know with mum that’s not her, not all, but my idea of mum and her condition living

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