Jemi Frazier Dancing with Dementia

Jemi Frazier
Dancing with Dementia

Jemi Frazier Dancing with Dementia

DANCING WITH DEMENTIA

Dementia and Alzheimer’s touch the lives of millions around the world, but so much is still unknown.

As first-generation Canadians, we didn’t recognize the early warning signs. We didn’t know the differences between regular aging and the early stages of dementia. We’ve made mistakes but we’ve learned a lot.

DANCING WITH DEMENTIA will help you:
•Identify those early warning signs
•Use visuals to improve communication
•Choose your words wisely
•Redirect and reassure
•Stay calm and cope with your own emotions
•Consider nursing home options
•Improve caregiver self-care

We’ve learned to dance the early steps of this disease with our love and laughter intact. If you are looking for help recognizing early signposts along with practical ways to cope with early Dementia and Alzheimer’s, this book is for you.

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Jemi Frazier Dancing with Dementia

Jemi Frazier Dancing with Dementia

Top Ten Reasons to Dance With Dementia

At first glance, Dancing With Dementia may seem an odd title. Dementia is a cruel disease, so why are we dancing?

Dance:

  • to move one’s body rhythmically usually to music
  • the art of dancing

(Thanks to Merriam-Webster for the definition)

10. Mom (Lizzie in the book) has always loved to dance

9. There are several incidents of Lizzie dancing in the book

8. Lizzie loves music in all its varieties. Her recent favourites include Adele, One Direction, Ed Sheeran. She has loved Bohemian Rhapsody since the 70s. And she adores classical music. Eclectic tastes! When any music is playing, Lizzie is moving to it

7. Lizzie met her husband Philip because of her love of dance. He was a piano player and she loved his music and she loved to dance while he played

6. Those early stages of dementia have required us to learn to dance that fine line between helping and taking over

5. Before she moved into a nursing home, we learned to dance around her need to feel independent with our need for her to be safe

4. We’ve learned to dance around memory lapses, reminding her and Philip (when he was alive) about dates and time of appointments. We took over administration of medication

3. We’ve learned to dance with dementia by using Lizzie’s love of music and dance to help her combat the effects of the disease. When she sings and moves to the music, she is happier, more alert and grounded

2. We’ve learned to dance around questions we know will hurt Lizzie.

Where is your dad? (He died more than 20 years ago)

Where is Philip? (Also passed away)

Why didn’t anyone tell me they died? (We did)

1. It’s important for us to focus on the positives. Sometimes it feels as if there aren’t many with dementia. But, there are. Lizzie still loves music, still loves to dance. And we’ll continue to dance right along with her.

So there you go! Ten reasons why we will continue to dance with dementia.

Jemi Frazier Dancing with Dementia
Jemi Frazier Dancing with Dementia
 
 
It’s a pleasure to be participating in author Jemi Fraser’s DANCING WITH DEMENTIA,
Recognizing and Coping with the Early Stages of Dementia
Blog Tour through
MC Book Tours today.
 
The author is offering a tour-wide international giveaway of an Amazon Gift Card. More information on the giveaway is listed below.
 
Recognizing and Coping with the Early Stages of Dementia
by Jemi Fraser 
â—Š Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir
â—Š Publisher: Just Jemi Books
â—Š eBooks
â—Š ISBN-13: 978-1-9991258-1-3
 
Dementia and Alzheimer’s touch the lives of millions around the world, but so much is still unknown.
 
As first-generation Canadians, we didn’t recognize the early warning signs. We didn’t know the differences between regular aging and the early stages of dementia. We’ve made mistakes but we’ve learned a lot.
 
DANCING WITH DEMENTIA will help you:
•Identify those early warning signs
•Use visuals to improve communication
•Choose your words wisely
•Redirect and reassure
•Stay calm and cope with your own emotions
•Consider nursing home options
•Improve caregiver self-care
 
We’ve learned to dance the early steps of the disease with our love and laughter intact. If you are looking for help recognizing early signposts along with practical ways to cope with early Dementia and Alzheimer’s, this book is for you.
 

DANCING WITH DEMENTIA buy links:
Amazon.com     Amazon.ca    Apple Books   Barnes & Noble        Kobo


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For those who aren’t familiar with the author, here’s a bit of background on her.
 
Jemi Fraser writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her nonfiction work focuses on the ways that dementia has impacted her family. Her fiction work varies from
contemporary romance to suspense and flash fiction. Years as a teacher have
taught Jemi that life is short and that happy endings are a must.
 
Jemi lives in Northern Ontario, Canada where snow is always a topic of conversation and the autumn leaves make everything better.
 
For more on Jemi and her writing, visit her following sites:
 
Website     
   
Just Jemi Blog    
  
Dancing
With Dementia blog 
Amazon
Page
 
      
BookBub      Goodreads     
 
Facebook     
 
Twitter     
 
Quick
Tips Videos
 
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
 
This tour-wide giveaway is for a $20 Amazon Gift Card. The giveaway is open internationally.
 
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Thanks for stopping by and be sure to follow Jemi on her week-long tour HERE. You never know what you might find out. I hope dementia hasn’t touch your family or friends, but in case it has do you have any tips to share on dealing with this terrible disease?

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Jemi Frazier Dancing with Dementia

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