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Thanks for watching! Are you a caregiver of someone with dementia and find yourself struggling to have a meaningful or even calm conversation with your loved one? Is your loved one easily upset and you want to know what you can do to lower the likelihood that there will be a fight?

In this video, I give my my best 5 tips on talking to someone with dementia. This will serve as a foundation to call kinds of communication you will need to have with your loved one.

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From conversations around daily needs to more meaningful conversations like reminiscence, these 5 tips are based on what I've seen has worked the best in my time working as a therapist with 1000's of dementia patients with challenging behaviors.

My hope is that after this video you be able to have more peaceful and meaningful moments with your loved one.

Tip 1: Use Few Words as Possible (Keep it Simple). In dementia, the ability to make sense of what you are saying goes down over time. It's easy to talk to your loved one the way your used to but if it is possible to use fewer words to tell your loved one something that is best.

Tip 2: Make Sure You Are Heard. One of the biggest reason I've seen dementia folks get upset is due to a hearing issue. Either your talking to high pitched, talking away from their ear, or you are too far away. Especially in the middle stages, dementia folks get agitated really fast when they can't hear you

Tip 3: Pay Attention to Nonverbal Communication. Nonverbal communication means tone of voice, body language and facial expressions. If your saying something nice but you look mad, your loved one is mostly going to see that. If you felt like you said all of the right things but your loved one is upset, your nonverbal communication might be the reason why

Tip 4: Let things go that don't affect health/safety. Here's the truth, dementia folks are going to do several things that are weird. They may put on 2 shirts, arrange things in a weird way and overall do things that may look strange to your average person. If you want to maintain peace in your home in place of work and don't want to deal with an agitated person. Learn to let go of things they do that don't affect their health or safety

Tips 5: Offer Choices. As your loved one looses the ability to do more and more things, making as many choices available to them as possible is going to be crucial to maintain peace in your home or place of work. If an effort to gain more control, your loved one might say no to things they need to do. Choices will allow them to feel comfort in their own abilities and not freak out on you because they feel like someone else is calling all of the shots

Bonus Tip: Remind yourself that you are doing a good job. It may seem like in day to day care that you are falling short just know that you are doing a great job and that even if your loved one can't communicate it you mean the world to them.

If you want more tips and strategies grab a free copy of the dementia success guide at www.dementiasuccesspath.com

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