As hard as it is to accept the reality and the new normal. The truth is that Alzheimer's gradually takes away the person you know and love. As this happens, you will mourn him or her and may experience the different phases of grieving: denial, anger, guilt, sadness and acceptance, your grieving process starts already and its heartbreaking to go through this process while your love one is still alive . The only thing that helps is to embrace what she / he has left. Don’t focus on what it was , because it will never be again. Focus on what is and try to make the best of it. Be creative to handle delusions. Remember they are no accusing you of stealing, cheating, hurting them. It’s the disease. They wouldn’t if they were not sick. Delusions are tough sometimes they remain for a day, sometimes a week and sometimes never go away. Please don’t personalized nor question their reality, don’t try to make sense of it, don’t argue, don’t try to make them understand. Please go to their reality they can’t be in yours. What you can do is assure them how much you love them and how safe they are with you. They are humans who hast lost their brain and its functions and what they have left is malfunctioning. Embraced their reality and love them until their death. They do need you. They do love you. Love is not a memory it’s a feelings that never dies.
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As hard as it is to accept the reality and the new normal. The truth is that Alzheimer's gradually takes away the person you know and love. As this happens, you will mourn him or her and may experience the different phases of grieving: denial, anger, guilt, sadness and acceptance, your grieving process starts already and its heartbreaking to go through this process while your love one is still alive . The only thing that helps is to embrace what she / he has left. Don’t focus on what it was , because it will never be again. Focus on what is and try to make the best of it.
Be creative to handle delusions. Remember they are no accusing you of stealing, cheating, hurting them. It’s the disease. They wouldn’t if they were not sick.
Delusions are tough sometimes they remain for a day, sometimes a week and sometimes never go away. Please don’t personalized nor question their reality, don’t try to make sense of it, don’t argue, don’t try to make them understand. Please go to their reality they can’t be in yours. What you can do is assure them how much you love them and how safe they are with you. They are humans who hast lost their brain and its functions and what they have left is malfunctioning. Embraced their reality and love them until their death. They do need you. They do love you. Love is not a memory it’s a feelings that never dies.
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