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From Page 18 be like for a husband or wife of an Alzheimer’s patient. “It’s somebody that you have lived with for 60 years and they don’t recognize you. It’s heart-breaking,’’ he said.
To understand how an Alzheimer's patient feels, Ms. Moe recalled how someone once described it to her. “Imagine that you go to the shopping mall, and when you want to leave you have forgotten where you parked. So you look and look and look for your car, but to no avail. Then you start wondering whether it was stolen or you simply haven’t found it yet, and you begin to panic and get angry and bewildered.”
For someone suffering from Alzheimer’s, this is a constant occurrence. “Basically, they feel that way all of the time, so you can see why they get frustrated,” she said.
Sometimes these patients do get aggressive, but Ms. Moe said she empathizes —1 considering what they are going through. Hammerman noted that Marshall Manor does not believe in using anti-psychotic drugs.
The manor’s Alzheimer’s unit has an enclosed, supervised outdoor yard. “It’s a very open-air unit,” said Ms. Moe. “The residents can go outside and they can wander without endangering themselves or others.”
Supervised activities are also provided for the dementia patients. In early
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