One purpose of this website is to describe and illustrate strategies that might be helpful to friends, family members and care-givers in improving care for people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. As a complement to formal care arrangements, we will also include strategies–and commentaries about them–for sustaining relationships between people who are living with these diseases and their family members and friends.
We are currently organizing materials that describe and illustrate strategies for the following challenges:
- Learning What Works
- Communicating without Words
- Visiting Memory Care Residents
- Unpacking Problematic Questions: perspectives and suggestions
- Staying in Touch through Quarantines
- Helping Others See People with Alzheimer’s or Dementia
- Recording and Documenting the Lives People are Living With Alzheimer’s or Dementia
- For Personal Reflection and Fulfillment
- For Community-Building and Public Education
- Communicating with Family and Friends
A few posts and links related to these topics are listed below. More will follow.
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Learning What Works
Trial and Error
Collaborative Trial and Error
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Communicating without Words
Seeing a Person Think
Applied Research Projects — Charles Goodwin: An online introduction to Charles Goodwin’s applied linguistics research on the interactive construction of talk. See in particular his comments and articles on the following topics: Human Vision as a Social Practice, Gesture and Embodiment, and Aphasia in Discourse.
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Visiting Memory Care Residents
Visiting While She’s Asleep
Visiting While She’s Entranced
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Unpacking Problematic Questions
Problematic Questions
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Staying in Touch through Quarantines
Perspectives and suggestions