General Guidelines on How to understand them.

I gave this to you as an example, I want you to give it a direction of thought.

You need to develop an attitude that you need to give to give a practical response than an emotional one.

The first guideline is to Change your attitude of emotional reactor to intellectual observer.

Here, I would like to thank SavvyCode for providing such useful tools with which you can become an intellectual observer.

write a diary, I also have a request that the exprience you share with the patients

Your everyday updates, stories, Send them to us on WhatsApp/ Facebook.

It will be archived by itself. It will be a book of its own!

And if you face a problem while typing, Record you experiences.

Every cellphone provides a microphone & a recorder.

Record your clips they can be 5mins, 10mins, 15mins and send them over to us on WhatsApp

We will create a transcript out of your recordings and have them as archives.

Be a good listner. One who listens says

Well heard conversations can give better responses

Hear them out not just to listen but to understand them.

Find out the intention behind thier words, Lisen to them

Increase your level of tollerance marginally.

I agree that everyone has a busy schedule, rush of the morning hour

If a senior citizen asks you if they could take a bath? they have asked you the same question thrice.

Ask them if they would like you to show them where the washroom is, there might be a chance that they forgot where the washroom is.

If you react at them, they might pee in the wrong place or walk out naked in the hall

There is a lot of irritation. You might have just heard Comma, drowsiness, Lethargy

But agitation aggression is in more value.

Always recollect their past habits, occupation, and hobbies. Let me tell you

I got a video from Raigadh, in which,

The person used to wake up in between of the night and walk around the house, even the sleeping pills didn't work

After asking what their hobbies were,

He used to play tennis, so the day he was given the racket & the ball he was at peace

Due to past habits he used to look for the equipments in the sleep.

It used to be dark so it was hard for him to look for. He got better with his sleep.

A lot of times, day, night, evening habits like these are called Transitory objects.

You know them well before they had Dementia now,

you have the opportunity to teach them what they have lost.

Cultivating a habit of engaging them in talks, activities and interactions.

Help them by watching movies of their lkings, B/W movies, games, board games , ludo etc

Paricipate in the activites even if they bore you.

Keep some transitory objects of attachment with you.

Be it the old Murphy radio, a badminton racket or even thier favourite old shawl

Keep these things around them this might reduce their irritation.

if he has a habit of chewing tobacco just do this in front of them, they will laugh.

Such things are transitory objects which make them happy.