In my personal life I do not have any experience with dementia. However interning in the hospital and with hospice I have worked with a few patients. All of the people were in different stages of their dementia. The saddest are the patients who are considered to be in the late stages of dementia. The loss of ability to talk and the aggressiveness is truly sad. I had a patient once who was being taken advantage of by her family. They were slowly removing things from her house, and trying to put her away in a nursing home. The other people I have worked with are combative and wonder off from their home. I have not spent a lot of one on one time with a dementia patient before. My biggest concern is working one on one with a dementia patient.
