Showing posts with label alzheimer's dementia care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alzheimer's dementia care. Show all posts

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.