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[Dysphagia] Dementing elders
I agree with Irene totally. People who suffer from dementing illnesses need
to be thought of as adults who need special supports in order to function,
not as people reliving infancy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Speech" <speechhuffman@nc.rr.com>
To: <Dysphagia@b9.com>; "Irene Campbell-Taylor" <eripley@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Dysphagia] Dementing elders
> Thank you, well said! I always make a point of finding out what the
> patient did for a living. Whether a homemaker, physician, or whatever, it
> always gives me some perspective as to what I might learn from them...
> Julie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Irene Campbell-Taylor" <eripley@yahoo.com>
> To: <dysphagia@b9.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 7:32 PM
> Subject: [Dysphagia] Dementing elders
>
>
>>I must protest most strongly to the recent opinions expressed vis-a-vis
>>regression to childhood in elders with dementing processes. To those of
>>us who have worked extensively with such patients, it is objectionable in
>>the extreme to contemplate that professionals are regarding elder
>>individuals who have lived, worked, raised families, paid taxes, supported
>>the current economy regarded as, in the way one elderly gentleman once
>>told me about himself, "something unthinking attached to a diaper." He
>>was diagnosed as having SDAT!
>> We owe our patients better than this. They are not infants, they are not
>> to be infantilized, they are not to be regarded as unaware because,
>> believe me, they are far more aware than anyone realizes.
>> I have spent many years teaching nurses NOT to speak to dementing elders
>> as though they were infants. I teach medical students, and demonstrate to
>> them that their patients with dementing illnesses are seniors worthy of
>> respect and consideration. The agism that is rampant in society and,
>> therefore, in medicine is deplorable and not to be supported in any way
>> by those who purport to care for them. Think for a moment. What if it
>> were your father or mother?
>>
>>
>> Dr I Campbell-Taylor
>> Clinical Neuroscientist
>> Exclusive Distributor:
>> www.interactivetherapy.com
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