- Choose Your Battles Wisely
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Individuals who resist care and assistance are trying to communicate to you. If dementia, stroke, vision loss, hearing loss or other illness limits one’s ability to speak and convey information effectively, body language and physical actions take on a greater role in communication. Refusal to accept care, physical contact or participation in an activity is the individual’s way of telling you something. When your loved one resists care, choose your battles wisely. Also, it’s usually helpful to get another family member’s perspective on what is really going on! Hugs to all those patient caregivers out there!
- Donna
Donna Baker Blog
Being manager of a 100-room senior apartment complex has been a 10-year (so far) lesson in life, love, neighborly interactions, and the resilience of the human spirit. Every day here at The Colonial Inn the most amazing stories unfold. Some funny, others not so funny, some with happy endings, others not - but always heartwarming. In this blog I hope to share with you just some of what happens around here so you, too, can appreciate the depth and breadth of life experienced at The Colonial Inn.
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