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Ian Kremer (lead_coalition@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 08:43:22 JST Ian Kremer
- Joseph Fasano
There is immense power in supporting people with #dementia to use their abilities rather than reminding them of what they are losing. This is a beautiful example of a strengths-based approach, an interests-based approach, a #kindness-based approach.
(image via @joseph_fasano_) #Alzheimers #poetry
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1. Dear Mr. Fasano, My mother Is 92 years young and living with dementia, which makes communication challenging. | brought your book of poetry prompts to her yesterday and she was very excited to use one to write a "poem." We worked slowly through the prompt and she said the words to me aloud Here it is below. (She was a ballet dancer in her youth, which explains some of her word choices). | don't know quite how to thank you for helping people find their voices. AFFIRMATION Let the days be warm. Let the fall be long. Let every child inside me find her shoes and dance wildly, softly, toward this world. I have a story I have never told: Once, when | was small, I looked up at the sky and saw the wind and knew I was a dancer made of song. I am still a dancer made of song.
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