Very interesting insights into perceptions and dementia. Everyone should read it and use it.
This is the fifth of a series of five posts about the senses in Dementialand.
Today we focus on sight.
An entire book could be written about how dementia changes how an individual sees the world. I want to stress that dementia itself does nothing to impair the eyes. Dementia, however, does make it more difficult for the brain to interpret what the eyes see. It is the visual-perceptual system that becomes damaged.
Sometimes I will spend time with someone who has dementia and think that their words and actions make little sense. It is only later that I realize that they were making perfect sense considering their experience of the world. It’s just that their experience of the world and my experience of the world are different. And that’s the challenge.
A couple of years ago, I was doing an informal activity with a small group of nursing home residents when…
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