Megan Hannan, creator of PersonFirst®, addresses the need to create an environment where people living with dementia can make decisions and experience life like an adult.
Megan Hannan, creator of PersonFirst®, addresses the need to create an environment where people living with dementia can make decisions and experience life like an adult.
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You are right, Megan, that culture change is also for people with dementia. Over 7 years of caregiving for my mother, I learned to pay more attention to her feelings and needs, to treat her, as you say, “as an adult,” even though at first it felt as if she had become my third child. Even with advanced dementia, Mom is definitely sensitive to the emotions of others, and to non-verbal communication. Well done, Megan!
–Martha Stettinius, author, “Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter’s Memoir.” http://www.insidedementia.com