Happy Holidays with Dementia

Hello Care Partners,

Celebrating family events gets more difficult as our person living with Dementia declines. Challenges like over stimulation or sheltering them from everything can both cause problems. Personalized care is important and we need to recognize this chronic debilitating disease is unpredictable and will affect your loved one in a different way than it does mine.

There can also be a more activities during the holidays than are reasonable. For example, parties, shopping, baking, cleaning and decorating not to mention the added expenses. Yikes!! Frequently we have unrealistic expectations for ourselves and our person living with Dementia.

Let's consider whose needs are really being served by these traditions.

What do I really want or need?

What does the Person Living with Dementia (PLwD) want or need? ...