08/21/2025                                                                            
                                    
                                                                            
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If you love someone with dementia, dementia still progresses.
If you learn as much as you can about dementia, dementia still progresses.
  
If you could provide perfect care to someone living with dementia (which is impossible), dementia would still progress.
You can do everything right. But you still don’t beat dementia.
Your loved one’s dementia getting worse isn’t because:
You lost your patience.
You’re not doing enough puzzles or activities.
You’re not “good enough” at caregiving.
We do not have control of how dementia progresses, but there’s a lot of info out there that causes us to second guess ourselves…
You see stuff about stopping dementia progression with certain diets or overpriced puzzles. Things pop up on Facebook that tell you how to be a better caregiver.
I have suggestions for people living with dementia and their caregivers. If people implement every single one of them, dementia still progresses.
Why? Because dementia progresses.
Even the newest drugs on the market for those in the earlier stages of Alzheimer’s do not cure Alzheimer’s. They may slow progression, but there is still progression.
I know I sound negative here and that’s not my intent.
My intent is to tell you to take a breath. My intent is to tell you that shouldn’t blame yourself when dementia progresses. You could not have done anything to stop the progression.
Let me tell you something that medical experts agree on: dementia has its own path. It moves according to its own rhythm – not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
On your very best caregiving day and on your hardest day when everything feels like it’s falling apart, dementia does what dementia does.
Your best is good enough. But it’s not going to cure dementia.