Dementia Care

at a Glance

Catharine Jenkins, Laura Ginesi, Berni Keenan

Multiple Choice: Chapter 18 Communication

Question 1. People with dementia can be helped to communicate by:

A. Understanding how different parts of the brain control different abilities
B. Making lists and talking about one thing at a time
C. Building rapport, listening and using shorter sentences
D. Using ‘elderspeak’, which involves talking to people with dementia as if they were children