DEMENTIA IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK

What if much of what we believe about dementia is exactly what makes living with it harder than it needs to be?

To many people, dementia means the slow disappearance of someone they love. Physician and dementia care educator Dr Felix REGELE shows why that belief is wrong, and how changing it transforms everyday care.

Drawing on nearly three decades of medical practice and dementia education, he explains what is really happening in the brain, then shows families, care partners, and professionals how to support the person who is still there.

Inside, you will learn how to

• recognize early changes and get an accurate diagnosis
• understand what treatments can and cannot do
• replace task-based caregiving with care partnering
• communicate without conflict and use respectful language
• read behavior as communication and meet the need behind it
• create safer, calmer, dementia-friendly spaces
• protect your own well-being as a care partner
• plan ahead and honor dignity through the end of life

“Dementia changes abilities. It does not diminish personhood.”