At DAWN, we believe in allowing people to age in place for as long as possible. However, it’s not always feasible to keep someone who is experiencing dementia at home through the end of life. How can families make moving someone with dementia less distressing? Let’s consider the ways we’ve helped our clients here at … Read more
Ellen Langer has been writing about the value of mindfulness for over 35 years. I read her book Mindfulness in the early 1990s. I still have my copy. In it, she points out the tremendous influence context has on our perception of something’s value. She gives the example of heroin, something we consider intrinsically bad, … Read more
At DAWN, we believe in preserving dignity and autonomy, and allowing people to age in place for as long as possible. However, it is not always feasible to keep someone who is experiencing dementia at home. Being the primary caregiver of someone who is experiencing dementia is exhausting, but it is especially debilitating if you … Read more
In another blog I stated that mindlessness is just as valuable to people experiencing dementia as mindfulness is to those of us who have healthy brains. Let’s consider the mindlessness tool muscle memory, and why it’s so helpful when someone is losing rational thought and memory. The value of muscle memory for dementia and Alzheimer’s. … Read more
Note: Daniel Kahneman, Princeton Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus, is an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Dear Dr. Kahneman, Could we talk about the importance of the … Read more