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1. Play Games like a boss. Play
Games For Fun only.

2. Is This How You Feel Working with
Dementia Residents?

3. How to Have Fun Activities with Persons
with Dementia

4. FIRST--Start with Understanding the
Person with Dementia

5. Personhood
A feeling, human being who is is not
limited to memory, problem solving, or
ability to perform activities of daily living
A person with a disability, not a terminal
illness
A person who is valued and respected for
who they have been and who they are at
this moment
A person whom we must learn to
understand and know.

6. Personhood Denied
Consequences of denying personhood:
Cognitive and Functional Decline
Disability
Victimization (AD victim)
Dehumanization
Isolation and Alienation

7. Personhood Denied
Terror
Depression
Non-support
Shattered life

8. Personhood Denied
US THEM
Sound of Mind Damaged
Contributing Deficient
Whole Without Value
Cognizant No Contribution

9. Treachery &
deception
Disempowerment
Infantilization
Intimidation
Labeling
Stigmatization
Outpacing
Invalidation
Banishment
Objectification
Ignoring
Imposition
Withholding
Accusation
Disruption
Mockery
Disparagement

10. Personhood
LOVE
Attachment
Comfort
Inclusion
Occupation
Identity
Tom Kitwood, Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First

11. SECOND—Understand Their
Pre-Dementia Intelligences

12. Intelligence
Howard Gardner’s Definition:
Verbal
Mathematical/ Logical
Visual-Spatial
Musical
Motor
Naturalist
Spiritual/Existential
Interpersonal Emotional
Intrapersonal Intelligence
(Daniel Goleman)

13. You May Need to Get This Background
Information from the Family

14. Verbal Intelligence
Likes to read, write, do crosswords
Enjoys conversation, public speaking
Enjoys puns, jokes, wordplay
Loves to tell stories
Enjoyed English, social studies,
history, foreign language, speech,
drama, forensics in school

15. Mathematical/ Logical Intelligence
Good with numbers
Enjoys playing cards
Likes sports statistics
Follows the stock market
Likes to find patterns, logical sequences
Enjoyed math, science, law classes