There is a lady here with dementia and she walked round and round the building a lot
At the beginning she walk around just ones and said goodnight to everybody After is
Christmas she started doing it 3 times 4 times 5 times and eventually one day she came to my room 30 times to say goodnight and she'll say him to ask me to lend her some pyjamas which I could not do. When we try to stop her from coming round she can get quite angry.
There's another lady the same age she's not got dementia but she subs and cries a good deal and she can't walk by herself she has to have a carer or two hairs help her to get out of bed into a chair.
She has got very distressed with the woman called Edna and goes round and round say goodnight afraid of her
On Saturday I was with the second lady let's call her Magus huge
Meeting older people
Until recently I had never met anyone with dementia. Now I know three people although one of them died recently. It was interesting that they had the same diagnosis it's affected them in very different ways. One woman who had been a teacher and studied English literature at university tells me things about the other people she livedbmwith which I believed at the beginning. When she said that she could read the news on the ceiling I understand that I must be aware that not everything she tells me was absolute truth. She. never forgot to ask me how my family were and remembered the details. Another lady was normal some of the time but then at other times she was screaming,help me and her face looked full of bitterness. She had one need or something if you wanted the carer to do but then would have another one 5 minutes later so even if someone has just been to see her she wanted someone else to come these two women could not walk independently. I think that added a lot of strain and
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