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    Dementia Together: How to Communicate to Connect
    Dementia Together: How to Communicate to Connect
    Dementia Together: How to Communicate to Connect
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    Dementia Together: How to Communicate to Connect

    By Pati Bielak-Smith

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    Dementia is an illness that causes no physical pain. But just ask anyone who cares about someone with Alzheimer's or another dementia if their heart isn't aching. The pain in dementia comes from feeling hopeless, alone, or disconnected from loved ones—but a broken relationship can be healed. This book is for family members and friends, for spouses, caregivers, and those who simply care. It outlines a path to a life with dementia that includes more life and less illness. With imagination, compassion, empathy, and quiet humor, the real-life stories in Dementia Together show you how to build a healthy dementia relationship. Because there are ways to communicate that result in greater capacity to receive as well as to provide both warm connection and practical collaboration. Living with dementia gives everyone an opportunity to grow their hearts bigger. This book shows you how.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2020
    ISBN9781934336243
    Dementia Together: How to Communicate to Connect

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