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Tag Archives: The deflection of ones own suffering

The new narrative of dementia pt 2

Too often I watch an interview of a care partner about life supporting someone with dementia, and they speak with incredible love, but often in paternalistic and patronising ways. In this way they subconsciously continue the myth that people with dementia are the ‘real sufferers’. What they are really expressing, in my mind, is their…

July 14, 2017 in Bullying, Daily Blog, Dementia, Living beyond dementia™, love, Prescribed Disengagement ®, Stigma.

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