How to Talk to Your Kids about Dementia

When Ty Lewis’ mother, Gertrude Jordan, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2014, her daughters were 6 and a half and 4 years old. At the time, Lewis said, she explained their grandmother’s condition to them honestly and with compassion.

She told them: “Grandma is not the same as she used to be. She’s losing her memory, which means she’s forgetting some things. And so what we’re going to do is we’re going to be loving, we’re going to just be gentle with her,” Lewis told HuffPost.

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