"Love is the key -- loving ourselves as we manage the change, loving others as they participate with us, loving the life we live even when it is disrupted or difficult." Linda McNamar.
Living with dementia is an opportunity to deal with almost constant change. Changes in lucidity, functioning, mood, mobility. It is literally a moment-to-moment noticing of what is needed to address yet another change, and to realize that whatever way we address the change will be temporary. I have found that having him push the grocery cart when we are shopping enables him to walk better. Kathy, a reader, wrote that opening containers before putting them in the refrigerator, such as cartons of cottage cheese, enables him to access these things without frustration and mess. What are some ways you deal with the changes (almost always decline) in functioning?
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