Book: What My Grandchildren Taught Me about Alzheimer’s Disease
Chapter: “It’s Their Business": Dignity, Respect and the Dining Experience
Blurb:
Adapting to the individual’s nutritional needs, maintaining hydration, setting up a conducive environment, and learning specific strategies for dining out can help caregivers find greater purpose and meaning in caregiving as “connecting” at mealtimes provides a sense of stability, rhythm, and structure in each other’s lives while maintaining the dignity of the individual with Alzheimer’s.