How to Meaningfully Reconnect with Someone Who Has Dementia
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Thirty years ago, Dr. Anne Basting, a gerontologist and a professor, had an experience that would change her life forever. Dr. Basting, who currently teaches theater at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was researching aging and memory for her PhD, and she felt she genuinely connected with a room of seniors who suffered from dementia.
At that time, Dr. Basting volunteered in a nursing home and she remembers trying to get the roomful of residents to do memory exercises, without much luck. She decided to try something different, hoping it would work. She tore a photograph of the Marlboro man out of a magazine and asked the residents to give him a name. They called him Fred, and somehow Fred morphed into Fred Astaire, and the group ended up
making up a story about Fred Astaire, laughing and singing and giving voice to their imaginations and idled memories.
Dr. Basting returned week after week to the nursing home and ran the same exercise using different pictures. Each time, she got the same enthusiastic responses. She felt that she was on to something.
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