Talking Points: Tips for Communicating With Dementia Patients
“My mother was sure there’d be a flood in her town — but only on her street. She’d read a book about the 1889 Johnstown Flood and became convinced that because she’d been too outspoken in her life and because the government controlled the weather, a street-specific flood would be their revenge against her.
Now, a flood wasn’t out of the realm of possibility since she lived a block away from the Sacramento River, which, in the winter, occasionally flooded. Only once in the 30 years she’d lived in her tiny Delta town, did she have to evacuate. However, when the flood talk began, it was summertime, and there wasn’t any flooding in . . .”