How To Actually Get Someone With Dementia To Accept Your Help

03/02/23 • 11 min

Trying to push or force someone with dementia doesn't work. It actually makes it less likely that the person with dementia will be willing to accept your help now - and in the future.

This episode will help lay the groundwork to increase your chance of success in getting the person with dementia to accept your help with personal care tasks like bathing and toileting.

Learn more and sign up for your free training class at www.careblazers.com

Trying to push or force someone with dementia doesn't work. It actually makes it less likely that the person with dementia will be willing to accept your help now - and in the future.

This episode will help lay the groundwork to increase your chance of success in getting the person with dementia to accept your help with personal care tasks like bathing and toileting.

Learn more and sign up for your free training class at www.careblazers.com

Previous Episode

What is Frontotemporal Dementia?

Bruce Willis was recently diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and there are a lot of questions about this diagnosis and how it differs from Alzheimer's disease. This is an audio clip from a YouTube video I did going over this diagnosis in detail.

To watch the YouTube video, you can click HERE.

Sending you so much love on your caregiving journey.

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How Do you Know When Thinking Is Impaired?

On this episode, I share what it means to be impaired on neuropsychological testing and why a basic score on any test isn't enough to know if someone has dementia.

Neuropsychological testing is extremely important in assessing for dementia and this is different than any 30 question test given in a quick doctors appointment.

Learn more and sign up for your free training class at www.careblazers.com