What remains makes it easier to communicate with
Alzheimer patients. Family members collect photographs
of major events in the patient’s life. When the elderly
are handed the photographs in glass balls, they often
spontaneously start sorting them and telling stories.
This makes it easier for the care givers to get to know
the patients. For example, a woman suffering from
Alzheimer kept searching for her shoes that she was
actually wearing at the time. When she was handed
photographs of the church and of her father, the care
giver suddenly understood that the woman had lost her
Sunday shoes. Her family bought a second pair, after
which the woman was no longer restless.
G-Motiv: Alessia Cadamuro (principal designer), Careyn Brielle, Monobanda, TU Delft.
