How to Start an Interaction the Right Way in Dementia Care
The first 10 seconds often determine everything that follows
Many difficult situations in dementia care do not start with resistance. They start with how we approach. We come in quickly. We speak while moving. We go straight to the task. And something shifts. The person hesitates. Pulls away. Says no. Or becomes passive.
What happens next often depends on something very small: The way the interaction begins.
