Kathy just posted a couple book suggestions on her Facebook page. I looked at one and here are a couple excerpts:
"...look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease and
focus more of our energy on creating moments of joy. When a person has
short-term memory loss, his life is made up of moments. ... We are not able to create a
perfectly wonderful day with someone who has dementia, but it is absolutely
attainable to create a perfectly wonderful moment; a moment that puts a smile
on their face, a twinkle in their eye, or triggers a memory. Five minutes
later, they won't remember what you did or said, but the feeling you left them
with will linger."
"You can look at the stories they repeat over and over again and think 'I heard that 10 times already' or you can think ' I better remember that story so that when she forgets it, I can tell it to her and bring a smile to her face'[I paraphrased]
-from Creating
Moments of Joy for the Person with Alzheimer's or Dementia: A Journal for
Caregivers, Fourth Edition Paperback – September 1, 2008 by Jolene Brackey
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