10 Tips for Living with Someone with Dementia
Patience and encouragement are essential when caring for loved ones. Here are just a handful of do’s and don’t’s to keep in mind when caring for someone with dementia:
- Agree, never argue.
- Divert, never reason.
- Distract, never shame.
- Reassure, never lecture.
- Reminisce, never say, “Remember…”
- Repeat, never say, “I told you…”
- Do what they can do, never say, “You can’t…”
- Ask, never demand.
- Encourage, never condescend.
- Reinforce, never force.
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