How to communicate with someone with dementia

Dementia is a progressive illness that, over time, will affect a person's ability to remember and understand basic everyday facts, such as names, dates and places. If you are looking after a person with dementia, you may find that as the illness progresses you'll have to start discussions to get the person to make conversation.

The most common symptom of dementia is the rapid loss of short term memory Source: Getty

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