Sharon B.

The unique challenges that Alzheimer’s bring are a strain for actually for everybody involved. It can… It changes dramatically from day to day and it progresses at a different rate. (0:22)

Every day is a different day and you have to treat it as a different day. The client may change from day to day or from minute to minute, so that’s very unique. (0:33)

Dorothy B.

In dealing with people with dementia, be it my mother, a client, a neighbor, I have learned that their needs change daily and sometimes by the hour. We just have to change our behavior or what we expect. (0:56)

One example is, like, I have a client who dearly loves children. And I can show her pictures and then one day she couldn’t she couldn’t handle looking at the picture of a child because it made her feel sad. She realized suddenly that her mother was gone and she hadn’t realized that before that moment. (1:25)

The needs of dementia patients can just change in a blink of an eye but the one need that doesn’t change is for them to just be loved and met wherever they are. (1:39)