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Originally Posted by bluebicycle
She likes arts and crafts, yeah.
She's mentally about the age of a 3 year old, so she likes crafts, but doesn't know how to do them. We have to work through them with her.
She can't do puzzles or anything if she's left alone, so she just sits there staring at walls. And she speaks to everyone in Spanish because she assumes that everyone speaks Spanish. (She doesn't know any better. She thinks everyone in the U.S. speaks Spanish.) So no one responds to her since they don't know what she's saying or asking. So basically she doesn't talk to anyone either. That's what's upsetting to me. I mean, what can she do when we're not there...
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Nursing homes, especially dementia units, usually do cooking activities because it is a good way to center the patients and do something really enjoyable and which engages all 5 senses. Some places will have a way for you to cook with her as well.
Was English her 2nd language? Often people lose languages learned later in life and resort to the first one. My first job was in a place with a lot of Greek immigrants and I had to learn some Greek phrases to survive. A later job meant learning Pennsylvania Dutch as I had a good number of Amish patients.
I'm sorry you are going through this. It's never easy but it just sometimes is the best and safest thing to do.
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