Jan 27 2009
More need to know dementia facts(part 2)
Yesterday, we were discussing language problems for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. We talked about the inability to find the right words when dementia persons try to speak. Technically this is called expressive aphasia.
We then discussed a dementia persons’ inability to understand what someone has said to them. Technically this is called receptive aphasia. Both these problems can seriously impact a dementia persons’ life.
Also of serious consequence is a condition called apraxia. Apraxia is when a person can not motor plan. In other words, they can not initiate common everyday movements such as walking, brushing their teeth, or even, something as simple as, raising their hand. Sometimes once you help them to start the movement, they can complete it, but sometimes not. People with dementia…….
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By Susan Berg
Can I please have a copy of that interview
Your blog serves a very valuable purpose. Although I am a writer, I haven’t been able to give up my day job as a C.N.A. in a long term care facility. I do have my own blog thanks to you, but I feel the following poem fits better with your subject matter. I hope you won’t mind that I took the liberty of featuring it here on your blog, and if you like it, you are welcome to post it in a blog post where more people will see it. Thanks.
Welcome to Memory Lane
By Kaye Lynne Booth
Where Alzheimer’s patients are thought to be sane.
They’re a little confused
And they do like to snooze
But when they wake they start over again.
They wander from room to room
And often they fall deep into gloom
Wait five minutes and you will see
They’ll again be gay as can be
Expecting the flowers to bloom.
We try to take care of them all
And make sure that they do not fall
We can’t always be there
But we do really care
We make it seem as if it’s no trouble at all.
It’s often that they make a mess
For the favorite part, there’s no need to guess
They rummage through what belongs to others.
They revert to childhood, we fill the part of mothers.
But it’s the hugs that are surely the best.
I also would like a copy of that interview. Thank you very much.