"Giving Alzheimer’s Patients Their Way, Even Chocolate," Pam Belluck, NY Times.
This article from the NY Times discusses a new approach to treating dementia, which is to let the person with dementia do more of what they want, like eat and bathe at 2:00 a.m., eat anything in any amounts they want and play with dolls. It discusses the approach of Beatitudes, an assisted care facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
It seems we, as caregivers, can learn from this approach. While we probably do not have 24/7 staff to allow the person to do anything he/she wants, we can be more careful about what restrictions we impose, we can allow the person with dementia to be right more, have his/her way more, do things (unless safety is involved) more in the way he/she wants. It might be a worthwhile article to read, not just for us but for assisted care facility personnel.
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