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For Dementia Awareness Week<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week (from 17th \u2013 23 May) in the UK it is Dementia Awareness Week<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Some of you will know that I worked for Alzheimer\u2019s society until I retired a couple of years ago.
\nI would like to acknowledge the work of the society and to contribute to Dementia Awareness Week by posting ‘something different for me’: a short sketch each day called <\/p>\n

\u201cAll in a days work\u201d<\/p>\n

These are not remembered stories but real events I wrote up a long time ago right after the visit\/phone call.
\nAs support workers we had excellent support in the office but on the rare occasion I couldn\u2019t get there after I finished a visit or I was alone in the office I used to write down my thoughts and feelings and let the paper listen.<\/p>\n

For her own health and safety<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I don\u2019t forget to eat, I cook for myself every day! She flew at me.
\nOoops, wrong tone in my question, so easily done.
\n\u201cYesterday I cooked a chicken and roast potatoes and some vegetable just the way I have always done.\u201d She said almost crossly.
\n\u201cOh that\u2019s wonderful\u201d I said, \u201cI love to cook for my family but don\u2019t always have the time now that I work\u201d. \u201cMay I have a glass of water?\u201d I ask the lady of the house.
\n\u201cOf course my dear\u201d she says so sweetly as she gets to her feet and heads to the kitchen.
\nI follow her, and as I step through the door I notice the most enormous dead plant resting in the sink.
\nIt has been the only occupant of that place in many a week by the looks of things.
\n\u201cOh we have plants in common too\u201d I exclaim. \u201cIs this chap having a holiday?\u201d
\n\u201cI do this too, I pop them in the sink while I go to work, it\u2019s a bit like self watering\u201d I laugh and my lady laughs too.
\nI look around the room.
\nIt has been many months since any food has been prepared here and many weeks since any of the cups on the side have been washed in this sink.
\nWe talk about the plants, their names, their likes and dislikes until my request for water has been forgotten.
\nI leave with the promise to return again to help with the watering and pruning. <\/p>\n

(After I have made a few phone calls of course).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Remember the person<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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