Video 1 Transcript
Make people laugh, make people with dementia feel that they're in a happy place. If they want to call you their mum, their nan, go along with them. Old photographs, talk reminiscing, play games. It's keeping them alert, keeping them alive in the world. Not to go against their words. People with dementia, they forget what they're saying, they can't remember. But just make up stories that you think they might believe. Don't lie. Don't lie to them. Don't make them, give them questions to argue. Just go with stories that you think is going to suit them. That's the only way out, really.