How Lifelong Personalities Traits and

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How Lifelong Personalities Traits and

Preferences Affect Dementia Care

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Why Is Life So Difficult for Those Involved in Dementia?

Many abilities are affected: ? Thoughts ? Words ? Actions ? Feelings It is variable: ? Moment to moment ? Morning to night ? Day to day ? Person to person ? Place to place Some changes are predictable but complicated: ? Specific brain parts ? Typical spread ? Some parts preserved

If it is progressive: ? More brain dies over time ? Different parts get hit ? Constant changing

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Understanding and Responding to Challenges and Unexpected Behaviors:

- What is happening? - Why is it happening? - What helps and what makes it worse/better? - What can we do about it to make it better? - How can we not have it happen in the first

place? - Learning to respond, not react!

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I'm Still Me... But I'm Different!

- Help me to be who and how I am - Don't ask me to do or be what I can't - Let go, but don't give up!

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Knowing the Person:

- History - Values and beliefs - Habits and routines - Personality and stress behaviors - Work and family history - Leisure and spiritual history - `Hot buttons' and comforts

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What Makes You Click? What Makes You Tick?

Learn about how you are and what you like,

so you can help yourself and the person you are caring for

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Lifelong Personality Traits and Preferences Make a Difference

- We are more of who we have always been Unless

- We have always been covering up who we really are and we decide to `let go' Or

- Dementia robs us of our ability to be the way we want to be Or

- Dementia causes us forget `how' we are supposed to be and lets us be `free'

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Personal Preferences Matter

- We like what we like! - With dementia, the `likes' can change - Old preferences will need to be revisited - The challenge is to honor what is

important but change what is needed - Our willingness to meet the person's

changing needs is essential - Changes are made harder by our sense

of loss and grief

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Some Personal Preferences:

- Appearance - Behaviors - Language - Daily routines - Foods and drinks - Music - Touch, textures, noise, space - Worship and spiritual practices

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How Does Dementia Affect This?

- Memory - Language: understanding and production - Self-care skills - Sensation - Emotional control - Reasoning and thinking - Vision

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Personality Traits:

Who are you? - Introvert - Extrovert - Lots of Details - Big Picture Only - Logical - Emotional - Planning Ahead - Being in the Moment

Who is the person you are trying to help?

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First, How You Do You:

- Come to decisions? - Get re-energized? - Feel about `boundaries' and `space'?

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Introvert - Extrovert

Introvert Likes to be alone Likes to think it out Likes personal space Needs alone time Private Shares little Decides on own after thinking it through

Extrovert Thinks out loud Talks it out Seeks out people Shares a lot Not good with boundaries Gets opinions before `deciding'

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