Occasionally, and perhaps more often in a dementia patient, a person may not feel like getting dressed or eating their breakfast.
Give them a five-minute break and tell them you will be ready when they are ready. Check on them in five minutes and see if he/she is ready to finish the dressing process. Often, he/she will be calling you long before the five minutes is up. This process may go on for thirty minutes, but usually resolution is reached long before that time is up, simply because the patient won’t remember what the problem was.
The caregiver may never find out what the problem was, but it is much more important to have peace and calmer patients than to struggle for twenty-thirty minutes and have everyone upset.
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