CARE PARTNERS CHANGING THE PARADIGM OF CARE

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CARE PARTNERSCHANGING THE PARADIGM OF
CARE
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• Father diagnosed with AD
• Family devastated
• What do we do?
• What is happening?

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• Who am I?
• Where am I?
• What is happening?
• What can I do?

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• I dont want to be here
• I dont want to be managed

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• No one is listening to me
• No one asks me what is wrong
• Why cant I do what I want to do?

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• I know what Im doing
• You just have to ask me
• Enter into my reality, dont expect me to enter
  into yours

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• I want my world to be your world
• Come, join me on my journey

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• Lets work together
• Lets listen listen, love love
• No open questions please!

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JOURNEYING TOGETHER

• Learn to listen with our hearts to the music
• Watch the musicians
• Your lead, my lead
• Lets do the dementia dance

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• Theres something I must do but I dont know what
  it is!
• Its like there are mice running everywhere!

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STRINGING THOSEPEARLS

• Together, burnish those memories
• Together, create new ones
• Together, celebrate today
• And together, lets embrace each other and our
  future