I am taking a MOOC on "Care of elders with Alzheimer's Disease..."
One care giver / assessor went to a patient's house. The patient's wife had said that her father with AD was complaining that the men in the red hats were coming to take him away and then he would rapidly decline from there. This happened every day at the same time in the evening. The assessor looked outside the window and saw gorgeous baskets of red flowers on the porch...hanging baskets in line with the front window of the room we were just sitting in. When the patient began his red hats men complaint the assessor went outside and removed the hanging baskets and returned to the house. The patient completely calmed down. It appears the flowers were casting a red glow on the lower half of the living room window and when you looked at it from where he sat facing the wall, he was seeing the reflection of the red flowers which had a sort of hat shape.
Often there are simple and yet effective solutions to problems of all kinds, not just illness. This reminds me of the final request my father made while dying. He asked, begged for a pill thinking it would help with whatever pain he was having. The doctor wouldn't give. I also begged him. No he didn't budge. I asked him to give any pill, aspirin, placebo. Nothing. He died within a few minutes. The world didn't fulfill a simple appeal of a dying person.
One care giver / assessor went to a patient's house. The patient's wife had said that her father with AD was complaining that the men in the red hats were coming to take him away and then he would rapidly decline from there. This happened every day at the same time in the evening. The assessor looked outside the window and saw gorgeous baskets of red flowers on the porch...hanging baskets in line with the front window of the room we were just sitting in. When the patient began his red hats men complaint the assessor went outside and removed the hanging baskets and returned to the house. The patient completely calmed down. It appears the flowers were casting a red glow on the lower half of the living room window and when you looked at it from where he sat facing the wall, he was seeing the reflection of the red flowers which had a sort of hat shape.
Often there are simple and yet effective solutions to problems of all kinds, not just illness. This reminds me of the final request my father made while dying. He asked, begged for a pill thinking it would help with whatever pain he was having. The doctor wouldn't give. I also begged him. No he didn't budge. I asked him to give any pill, aspirin, placebo. Nothing. He died within a few minutes. The world didn't fulfill a simple appeal of a dying person.
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