Coping with the Stigma of Dementia
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Dementia, mental illness, physical disabilities and other issues that make us "different" from other people often bring stares from lookers on. I don't believe most people mean ill. I just feel they are curious, and often sympathetic, but they don't know what to do or whether or not they should offer to help. In a perfect world, we'd all do the right thing. We live in an imperfect world. How do we cope when we have a parent who struggles with dementia and we have him or her out in public?
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