Dear Southend Care,

Thank you for your email and interest in our article in Futurum Careers. You pose an interesting and yet difficult question. We have found in our work with people living with dementia that they often do not like to think about the future in concrete terms, but they do like to talk about their preferences and what is important to them. We are starting to use creative ways to facilitate discussions with people with dementia to be fun and in the moment, yet discuss their preferences and what they don’t like. Right now we are using story-telling as a method called Timeslips by Anne Bastings, here at this link: https://www.timeslips.org/product/creative-care-by-anne-basting/
I hope that you may look into this. We find it lots of fun and will even integrate it into our everyday activities.

Thanks again.

Kind regards,

Nisha