Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Mother has dementia and is mean


One common question or theme that occurs in the emails I receive is the question -- how do you deal with Alzheimer's patients who say "mean things". 

In others words, how to deal with these challenging behaviors.

Mother has dementia and is mean

I understand how much the meanness can hurt. It happened to me for many years. It kept happening even though I was trying as hard as I could to reverse it.

The question,

How can you get a person living with dementia to stop saying mean and hurtful things to you?

When Dementia Patients Say Mean Things, What Can You Do?


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