Dementia: learning from the expert in our care

The experts by experience consulted by decision-makers and included in co-produced training are often relatively young, articulate and in the earliest stages of dementa or related conditions. However the individual with dementia on our caseload can teach us a lot about how best to support them - if we learn to really listen to them.

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Is honesty always the best policy?

Telling 'the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth' is not always appropriate in dementia care. When facts slip away, leaving only feelings behind, those feelings become far more important than the facts.

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