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Dementia loved ones ‘benefit from visits’
People with dementia feel happy long after a visit or experience they may have forgotten
Spending time with loved ones with dementia is important even after they fail to recognise the faces of friends and family, a dementia charity says.
A survey found that 42% of the public think there is no point in keeping up contact at this stage.
‘I do my crying in the shower’
Caring for a husband with dementia is a lonely and isolating experience, Alison Bulmer says.
“People say I am strong, but I don’t feel strong a lot of the time. The shower gets a lot of my tears.”
Her husband, Paul, 57, and from Cheshire, has a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease that attacks the back of the brain.
Dementia victims ‘written off by families’
Relatives and care staff found to be too pessimistic about activities sufferers can manage which could worse the condition
- Alzheimer’s disease sufferers worse when their families give up on them
- Families and care home staff believe sufferers cannot do leisure activities
- Researchers found dementia sufferers benefited from regular stimulation
- Patients suffer greater agitation when the illness progresses
Elderly people with dementia are too readily written off by relatives and carers, research suggests.
A study of care home residents found staff and families were overly-pessimistic about the types of activities that relations and patients were capable off.
