Responding to emotional distress, expressions of anger and excessive walking.
Sometimes feelings and emotions can cause people with dementia to behave in ways that are unusual to them and are a result of the dementia. These behaviours can sometimes challenge others to understand what the person is communicating. For example,
- hitting out in an angry way
- walking around all the time
- difficulty in self monitoring behaviour with others
- not co-operating when being helped with caring tasks
- constantly repeating the same thing
- shouting out loudly, and
- putting things in places where they cannot be found.
Devon Partnership NHS Trust and Torbay Care Trust have produced a series of video clips on YouTube, which are helpful in understanding more about behaviours that challenge us.
Task 4: If possible watch the video, ‘What is Challenging Behaviour in Alzheimers Disease and Dementia?’ http://www.youtube.com/user/DementiaEd#p/u/8/oNBsk-EBW_o