Rethinking Communication guide to advanced dementia

acknowledge this we become better able to solve a range of challenges, both societal and personal. That shift enables us to see that when we draw links between babies and people with advanced dementia, what we are saying is this: • Being treated with consideration, kindness and care is important to our humanity. People with dementia deserve that as much as our babies do. • Relationships can flourish when one person’s actions are greeted with curiosity by another person. In bringing curiosity to our interactions with people with dementia, we keep them in our social world. . • Communication requires that two people find a common language. When speech isn’t available, we can turn to non-verbal language. People with dementia do not lose the ability to communicate in this way. As our discussion in this book continues, the similarities in the communicative abilities of people with advanced dementia and babies will