The Person With Dementia
Background
Dementia is a disease that progressively deteriorates the mind causing memory loss, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. The way a patient is treated by their caregivers, family, and friends has a direct impact on their quality of life. While having the best of intentions many people are ignorant to how their actions and behaviors may be negatively impacting quality of life. Even though they’re not who they used to be, people with dementia still need to maintain a sense of comfort, inclusion, and identity.
Project
This book contrasts positive and negative actions and behaviors taken in various situations. With this, I hope to inform people of the proper ways to treat people with dementia in order to improve their quality of life.
