Loss of reality – communication with dementia: what helps, what not

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Dementia patients sometimes live in their own world. Family members such as nurses are a challenge: do you have to leave them in or confront the reality?

“I think I’m in the crazy house,” my father often said when we tried to discourage him from his travel plans. Almost every day, usually after lunch, an inner unrest and that is why he picked up things in his travel bag – to meet professional obligations or to visit his sister, he thought. Nothing was correct. Years ago he was retired, his sister died in the meantime. But my father lived in his own world, in which different times and places seemed to merge into a reality.

Source: Krone

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