Dementia victims 'written off by families'

[wendy]

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Relatives and care staff found to be too pessimistic about activities sufferers can manage which could worse the condition

• Alzheimer's disease sufferers worse when their families give up on them 
• Families and care home staff believe sufferers cannot do leisure activities
• Researchers found dementia sufferers benefited from regular stimulation
• Patients suffer greater agitation when the illness progresses  

By Fiona Macrae for the Daily Mail

Published: 00:48, 4 December 2015 | Updated: 01:15, 4 December 2015

Elderly people with dementia are too readily written off by relatives and carers, research suggests.

A study of care home residents found staff and families were overly-pessimistic about the types of activities that relations and patients were capable off.

[annie]

So sad

[daisy]

Fiona Macrae is a journalist but does she have experience of caring for a person with dementia? It seems to me that she has written an article but does she have any useful suggestions - maybe my hurried reading of the article means I have missed something important.

I have cared for hubby for many years - he was already housebound due to physical ailments before Vascular Dementia invaded our lives. As Carer I have been and still am on a steep learning curve.