Life little exciting surprises

I said when I started this journey I wanted to help educate people. I hope along the way I have touched lives. But as life goes on it seems I am being put in more positions to help more people understand what it is like to have EOAD. I was asked yesterday about going to Baton Rouge next week and testify before the legislation on the need for dementia training in nursing homes, home health and other health care, cannot think of the word. People who give hands on care of Dementia patients. Being from a geriactic background I do know the need. It is sad. I only wish I knew then what I know now. I probably wouldn't had a job long though because I would have been going against some of the things we are taught. Get them out of bed, put them with other residents, correct them when they are wrong, make them put on the clothes you think they should wear, the list could go on. No one bother to wonder if maybe they got tired easier than other residents. Maybe the other residents were making more noise that the dementia resident could handle. Maybe what they were thinking and saying they really felt was right in their minds. Maybe they did not like the clothes put out for them they wanted to wear some other clothes that didn't even match. Some decisions and agitation that occured now I look back and wonder would the world have come to an end with the resident being able to make more decisions. I don't think we were bad and mean to residents but we wanted to make sure they looked good as defined by the family when they came to visit. "Moma looks so good, she would just put on anything when she was at home." Did it hurt anyone is my question? Okay enough on my soap box. Have a good night and hug someone and let them know you care.
Sue