Rethinking Communication guide to advanced dementia

22 is hard and that we don’t really know how to do: engage with someone who doesn’t appear to want to engage with us. If you are a professional caregiver who doesn’t have a history of loving that person, then it is easy to focus on the tasks to be performed, rather than relate to them as a person. It is deeply uncomfortable to acknowledge these reactions. It’s not at all how we would wish ourselves to behave. It it is perfectly 2