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At times, you may find your care recipient reacting to the present as if he or she were still in the past. The aging process may unleash emotions and actions based on events that occurred fifty, sixty, even seventy years ago.
To gain insight into your care recipient’s past, take time to review old photos with your care recipient. Ask questions about your care recipient’s first love, first job and first heart-break. Reminisce about past holidays, birthdays, anniversaries. And, ask your care recipient about past historical events.
When you help your care recipient review the important events of his or her life, you gain insight into your care recipient, painting a larger, more colorful picture of him or her. And, when you gain insight about your care recipient, you gain insight about yourself. And, that insight helps you paint your own portrait with vibrant, life-affirming colors.
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My mother reminisces about the old days a lot. I just twittered last week how mom and I were speaking about the good old days and I asked her if given the chance would she give up the modern conveniences to go back to those days and she said absolutely. people were so much more courteous back then. My mom speaks often as if she were still in the past. I think they lose sense of time. Im blessed that while my mom is 90 her mind is still very good and i have very nice chats with her about those times.
we still talk about the old days…my grandparents had a bakery/luncheonette when mom was young…mom atually worked there at a very young age…i knew about the bakery and how grandpa made the roles and bread and they hired a baker of cakes. I thought the luncheonette was just sandwiches but mom told me they had hot meals there like a diner..i was so surprised and interested at the same time. mom could not get over my reaction to this.I said i wish mom and i could go back there just for a day. I would have loved to see it…i love talking about the old days…i truly do