Life After a Dementia Diagnosis
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People living with dementia are anxious to teach the public that while a dementia diagnosis is not what anyone wants to receive, it’s not as if they are “healthy” the day before the diagnosis and in late-stage dementia the day after. Many people live for years with manageable dementia, and any number of them would call their lives satisfying.
John Zeisel, Ph.D. wrote a book titled “I’m Still Here: A New Philosophy of Alzheimer’s Care,” which promotes the idea that people can live full lives even while they are managing their dementia. Zeisel writes passionately about the insights that people with dementia can offer. He believes that…
