1. How to be more open to the needs of seniors
Frans Meulmeester
October 2018

2. Structure Meaning of life, a holistic view The word ‘dementia’
There is a meaning in every behaviour
Facts, feelings and symbols
Are we really open ?
Do we have the conditions to be open?

3. Some basic questions What is important for you in your life now?
What makes your life worth living for?
What gives you joy?

4. Mr. Frantisku
Some examples

5. Holistic ?

6. Holistic

7. Dementia Without mind In other words
They don’t know what they are doing!

8. People who we call demented
are doing things
that make a lot of sense.

9. Some examples

10. We cannot decide, what is important or useful for an old person.
We have to dis-cover it, we have to learn it from the old person.
We have to listen to them with all our senses.

11. Facts and feelings
Facts and symbols

12. Dementia is …
at the end of your life fighting with your past.
to fight now what you did not fight then,
to cry out now what you did not cry out then,
to speak out now what you did not speak out then.
One big psychodrama with you in the leading role.