Primary Education Topic:
Caregiving
Other Education Topics:
Aging in Community
Health & Wellness
Healthcare & Aging
Only person-centered care can work for those with dementia—an intensely personal disease.
By Kathy Greenlee
She could always remember the farm. The best gift we could give her was to take her away from the nursing home, drive to the country, and look at the wheat. If we were lucky, we ran into someone we knew working the fields. Back in the nursing home, she kept reminders: a four-foot metal windmill, a concrete pig, and a plastic chicken. But in the country, during the drive, she could remember and she could see.