What If Dementia Does Not Erase Personhood? With Marilyn Raichle
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The episode discusses the concept of personhood in dementia care, emphasizing the importance of meeting individuals where they are rather than focusing on who they used to be.
Send us Fan Mail Dementia is often treated like a door slamming shut. What we hear from Marilyn is the opposite: a series of doors opening once we stop chasing who someone used to be and start meeting who they are right now. We talk about caring for parents with dementia, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s, and how one family’s long-held rule to “walk away” collided with the real work of love, grief, and showing up. We dig into what changes when you embrace the idea of “living with dementia” inste...
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