How do you talk to your elderly relatives or parents about coronavirus? And if your parent has dementia, how do you inform them about coronavirus without frightening them? Dr. Bruni Nazario shares the tips that helped her family recently:
outbreak has unfolded, the advice I’ve been giving everyone is ‘stay informed’, ‘keep your daily routine as close to normal as possible’, and ‘stay connected’.
We recently tackled this with my mother-in-law. She lives in a skilled nursing home, and she’s accustomed to our weekly visits, our afternoons in the gardens, and hours of sitting together watching Hallmark movies.Communication can be complicated and aging makes this worse. She’s separated from family and friends, she has hearing loss, and a decline in memory. She processes information a lot slower these days.
We worked with the tuberculosis outbreak because she lived through it. There were parallels in the situations that we could use to help her understand what’s happening now with the coronavirus.
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