What does it feel like to have dementia?

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What does it feel like to have dementia?

  1. I feel confused
  2. I feel lonely and isolated
  3. I feel afraid
  4. I feel very frustrated and angry
  5. I feel very tired
  6. It’s a very hard struggle
  7. I need kindness and humanity
  8. I need acceptance
  9. I need understanding not judgement
  10.  I can’t remember things and this is very humiliating
  11.  I can’t express  myself well
  12.  I can’t think straight
  13.  I need you to go slowly and gently with me
  14.  I need prayer support
  15.  I need to try and keep my sense of humour
  16.  I am more than my illness
  17.   I am a human being and the same person I always was
  18.   A child of God
  19.   I am a ‘human being’ not a ‘human doing’