Living with dementia

Living with dementia sometimes feels as if my soul is being sucked out, little bit by little bit, as my world slowly disappears. I have presented much of this blog elsewhere, and perhaps even here, but it felt right to publish this today… Communicating with a person with dementia: For the memory impaired, memory is like…

Dementia and communication

As the symptoms of dementia seem to be progressing, the one thing that seems significant to me right now is my inability to keep up with a conversation, especially over the telephone as the visual clues are missing. It is easy for me to say yes or no reasonably appropriately, but not so easy to…