Living with dementia

Helmut (Experiences Dementia)

Need Unmet

Needs Met

Martina (Caregiver)

Needs Unmet

Needs Met

emotional connection

Able to cope with situation. but still hard to get use to taking responsibility

Social circle shrinks

Transportation (physically exhausting)

Emotional/family support

Have a daily routine (keeps positivity)

Nutrition (Helps cook meals)

Family support

Hygiene care

Play activities (his favourite game)

Round the clock care

Emotional connection

Can't remember moments & relive through showing album pictures

Speech difficulties

Changing of clothes

Brushing teeth

Sometime his wife has to guess what he is thinking

Happy moments during the day

Accepts outside help

Changes bed often because incontinent

Physically and Emotionally exhausted (Children helped until they moved out it was difficult)

3x a week at senior daycare - allows time for herself

Daughter stay closed to help him and her mother

Hard time expressing emotions

What is dementia?

44 million people are living with dementia that is an incurable brain disease that causes memory loss about small things that can progress memory loss about their entire life that requires round-the-clock care and assistance.