Description: More than half of the elderly people around us who are over 85 years old suffer from dementia. Dementia is not a rare disease. Dementia is not a common phenomenon that can be dismissed as "natural memory loss with age". Dementia is a cognitive disease that requires more understanding from the caregiver and support from the outside world. The current medical treatment of dementia is limited, and most of the time it still relies on the relationship between the caregiver and the elderly. This book brings caregivers a practical knowledge of how to have a conversation. The author suggests that caregivers should try to create face-to-face and eye-to-eye situations when talking to their dementia patients, so as to give the patients positive and pleasant feelings, and to develop the habit of initiating conversations with the patients. Self-talk by the caregiver is also important. As much as possible, the caregiver should say, "Being with this elderly person is the only experience I have ever had in my life. This is the only experience I have ever had in my life." This is the way to get through the difficult times of caregiving and companionship.
