This Land is Our Land

When we work with people who are living with dementia, we often are privileged to hear stories from their past, stories of how they came to America or how their parents or grandparents immigrated to this land.By Tom and Karen BrennerWe work with people of many and varied ethnic groups, religions and cultures andas a result their stories of immigration vary greatly.There are, however,a few themes that are common to all of the elders telling us these stories.They all, every one of them, made a life here and contributed enormously to their new home - America.Topic -Coping with Alzheimer'sSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:Here are a few of the stories that people with dementia have so generouslyshared with us:1.Ezra was a 102 year old man when we first met him.He was unsure where he was (a long term care center) what the year or even the decade was and he never remembered us.But Ezra remembered very well his German grandfather,a man who cleared the Indiana forests with only a very sharp ax and an indomitable will. He would inspect his sons and grandsons each Sunday morning to make sure they had come up to scratchbefore they were allowed to walk the few miles to church.Ezra and his family continued to farm the land that his grandfather cleared, producing meat, milk and grainfor his fellow Americans.How to Listen to an Alzheimer's Patient2.We were working with flags of the world one daywith Jenny who usually said almost nothing and slept through much of the day.When Je...
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