Relationships and dementia

People with dementia need to create a new image of who they are and who they are becoming, and how they do this depends very much on their personality, life story, general health, spirituality, and social environment. This can impact significantly on how others treat them as life is about belonging, and when you no…

Grief, Insight and Acceptance with dementia

Loss and grief is a normal part of accepting a terminal illness. It is more often associated with death, and this can make the experience of loss in dementia even more difficult, as we don’t accept or validate that what we are going through is a grieving process. Grief after a diagnosis of dementia is…