Dementia Positive

Quote of the month:
" People with dementia very often seem to see more than we do, to see through things, round things, past things. Their senses appear at times to be differently deployed so that they hear smells, see voices, taste pictures. They use metaphor as we might use observation, their linguistic range, which to us without dementia may appear very strangely configured, is also fluid, generously, even lavishly, overlaid with imagery, freed from grammatical or chronological rules. It is already poetic in essence." - Karen Hayes from The Landscape of Dementia (unpublished)