"Educate, enlighten, lift up, positivize, encourage, magnify the good and minimize the bad. This is the only remedy that will heal the corpus populi." Charles Burton.
Charles Burton was a publisher, and this expressed his belief of his responsibility of what he published in his magazine. It reflects my beliefs too. In this blog I want to educate, enlighten, lift up, positivize, and magnify the good and minimize the bad. Goodness knows we who are caregivers for dementia could magnify the bad; as there is plenty of it. But, honestly, what good would that do? I am re-reading "The 36 Hour Day" by Mace and Rabins, as I think it remains the single best resource for dealing with dementia; and I need to update my strategies for dealing with the "bad" -- which includes his inability to be aware of his own cognitive limitations and functioning, his defensiveness, the difficulty communicating. I update my strategies to deal with the "bad", so that I can focus on the "good": his cute sense of humor, his efforts to stay functioning, his desire to be a good person. Together we can do this caregiving, do it well, and become better persons for having done it.
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