This article provides direction for carers and service providers to better understand the needs of the people they care for through thoughtful use of language and insight.
When a person living with dementia loses the ability to communicate effectively with verbal language, attend to their own needs, or solve their own problems, they may exhibit different ways of showing they are distressed.
Others may perceive these behaviours as unwanted, irrational, or problematic and try to contain them.
But such behaviours may be the person’s only way of communicating pain, frustration, loneliness, fear, boredom, and unmet needs such as a full bladder or hunger.
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