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25-Apr-2008
5 Surprising Ways to Use Memories to Help People With Memory Loss
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Thanks for sharing your examples--Anonymous brings up a great silver lining to reminiscence therapy, that we the caregivers can glean stories and insights that we didn't know before. I know this is true of my Dad, who is sometimes prompted by pictures to launch vivid 70- or 80-year-old tales of growing up in his small town.
Thanks for sharing your examples--Anonymous brings up a great silver lining to reminiscence therapy, that we the caregivers can glean stories and insights that we didn't know before. I know this is true of my Dad, who is sometimes prompted by pictures to launch vivid 70- or 80-year-old tales of growing up in his small town.
First I would like to thank you for this informative website! When my father-in-law developed Alzheimer's, his wife immediately placed family pictures and pictures of events around him and daily discussed them with him. Some days he remembered all of them. On the days that he didn't she would find one that he would remember and they would discuss events surrounding it at length. I also did this with my Mother. I would see her eyes light up as she relived a warm moment in the past. It was wonderful to see the joy!
I do this with my dad! He has some cognitive problems and gets frustrated when a conversation involves abstractions -- especially geography for some reason -- that he struggles to grok, and I've learned that speaking to him about his past is one of the easiest ways to converse with him. As a result, I've learned things I never knew before, things I never would have learned about him otherwise.