DEMENTIA AND DENIAL

Because memory loss is such a significant feature of dementia and alzheimers, patients find it difficult when caregivers or others tell them about the things that they have or haven't done.
Also repetitive stories and questions can be very annoying and wearing on caregivers. What a challenge it is to be a caregiver! However, patience must be preserved, love shown, and the patient treated with dignity. Imagine how it must feel to have your faults or failings displayed for all the family to see. Despite the difficulties respect for the person inside must be maintained.

The weather here in Paarl continues to we warm and sunny, autumn at its very best. A little rain would be nice, but we all know that when it does come it will be like an Indian monsoon.
My memory and cognitive abilities remain the same with no deterioration. Of course the damage already done by dementia remains, so I struggle with peoples' names and words. However, thank goodness the word issue is manageable and I am still writing about 1000 words per day. The first draft of' Down and Out in Boland' is finished and editing is now taking place. It will I suspect be another year before publication. However, my current project is called 'My Memory and I', 'How To Fight Dementia and Alzheimers.'
This book is for the benefit of other dementia sufferers and their caregivers. I hope that my own story and all the information about dementia and alzheimers that I have gathered will be help others to arrest or at least slow down dementia and alzheimers.
David Barnato.
Paarl. South Africa