Posted on 04/17/2020 - 2:58 PM
Are you dementia-aware? Are you sure?
Given that roughly 5.8 million Americans lived with Alzheimer’s and other dementia in 2019, we can readily assume it directly affected more than 12 million people. This issue brief highlights six things every case manager needs to know about dementia.
“We can’t stop, fix or change dementia, but we can manage it and have more positive interactions as we begin to understand what’s behind dementia symptoms.”—Laura Wayman, The Dementia Whisperer, author of A Loving Approach to Dementia Care