Media Mention: Dignity, respect at core of new approaches to Alzheimer’s care
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J Weekly

Excerpt:

A Bay Area woman struggling with mid-stage Alzheimer’s was obsessed with getting the mail. Her husband, serving as her caregiver at their home, let her bring in the mail each day, but later she would forget and want to do it again. And again. When her husband repeatedly told her the mail had already come, the woman would become agitated.

“She couldn’t hold on to the fact that she had already brought in the mail, and her husband felt that he had failed her,” said Andrea Korsunsky, director of Jewish Family and Children’s Services’ Center for Dementia Care, a program of Seniors at Home.

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Posted by Admin on June 16, 2016