Imagine a grape, that's what a healthy brain looks like. When your brain is healthy, all of the messages can get back and forth without a problem. But what happens with Alzheimer's disease causes the brain to shrink and shrivel, basically turns your grape brain into a raisin.

Imagine a raisin. There are deep crevices, and those crevices make it hard for the messages to get back and forth. This is why people lose their memory, decision-making ability, and the hardest thing is that they lose their ability to use and understand language. So our words basically end up sounding like Charlie Brown’s teacher.

So words don’t work anymore; but the person does pick up on our emotions and our non-verbal behavior. They will “mirror” us.

On this week’s This Is Getting Old podcast, I will uncover the C3P Problem-Solving Framework that will help you understand how to manage someone who has Alzheimer's Disease. [ Ссылка ]

The TRUTH is, there isn’t one thing that will work for any specific behavior.

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