Neurology Medicine

How to Communicate With an Alzheimer’s Patient?

As you know, as the disease progresses, the vocabulary of the sick person is reduced gradually, reaching a time will not be able to name the objects that surround him and even to express their feelings or desires or call our behalf, and to understand what we say. Communicating with person who have neuro problem can be frustrating, but we should never think that reducing our dialogue, questions and phrases are going to help, but quite the opposite. We must always look for strategies that allow us to continue communicating with him, even in the final stage of the disease.

So, how can we communicate with the patient? There are a number of guidelines and advice that is appropriate to continue to seek to understand us and understand us. Among the most common, and although some seem very basic, for example we can verify that it has placed his glasses and hearing aids (if present), we should never hurry, to provide adequate lighting, avoiding a lot of people, noise and distractions. When we want to talk to the patient, we will stand before him, looking into his eyes lovingly, avoiding intimidating, and we started talking slowly, using short sentences and simple. We must bear in mind that arguing with him or force him will only make matters worse, since the patient is ill and will not be able to reason logically. Another little trick is to use mime and gestures to make it easier for the message, vocalized expressions very well and consistent with what we wish to express.