DAA thanks Kirsten Jacobs, associate director of dementia and wellness at LeadingAge, for allowing us to re-post her July 14, 2017 article, in which she imagines how our attitudes and actions might change if we looked at dementia as a disability, not an illness. Pam Montana and Chris Hannafan recently invited me to view dementia through an intriguing lens. In early June, the two appeared on my television screen during an installment of the PBS “Brief but Spectacular” series, which periodically asks interesting […]

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by Laura Bowley, Director at Mindset Centre for Living with Dementia With Warm Appreciation to Laura Bowley for permitting us to re-post this April 6, 2016 article at a time when WE TRULY NEED TO SEE THE PERSON: (original post link: http://mindsetmemory.com/see-me/) What happens when you don’t see the “me” in dementia? If you don’t see the “me,” you see the dementia instead, and when you see the dementia, the “me” or the “I” becomes an “it.” You’re seeing a disease […]

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By Laura Bowley, Founder, Mindset Center for Living with Dementia  Originally published on Apr 6, 2016  http://mindsetmemory.com/blog/ What happens when you don’t see the “me” in dementia? If you don’t see the “me,” you see the dementia instead, and when you see the dementia, the “me” or the “I” becomes an “it.” You’re seeing a disease rather than a person. If you don’t see the “me,” you get physicians who speak to the caregiver when revealing the diagnosis, and not […]

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