When completing workbook 1 you began to consider some of the difficulties a person with dementia might experience. These changes to the brain cells impact on a person’s ability to use their usual thinking strategies so that a person may have difficulties with:
- getting confused and not knowing where they are
- forgetting things e.g. ‘Where am I’?
- losing things e.g. ‘Where are my keys’?
- finding the right words for things/getting words in the right order
- expressing strong feelings in an appropriate way
- making decisions and judgements
- managing social situations, and
- managing money and finances.
Further learning
In the SCIE open dementia programme ‘Living with dementia’ Module 2, Section 4 allows you to listen to people with dementia as they describe the difficulties they have
www.scie.org.uk/publications/elearning/dementia/dementia02/resource/flash/index.html