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[What does the language of Alzheimer patients have to do with the language of Paul Celan?].

Being in touch with severely demented patients requires a fundamental transformation in communication habits in medicine and in nursing. There is a need of reorientation away from an interpreting and often deficit-oriented aspect of communication towards attentive observance of unusual verbal and nonverbal signals and resources of the patient. Spontaneous and open communication with the patient outweighs the importance of a goal-oriented exchange of information and poses a significant challenge for all health and social professions. The well-being of persons with dementia depends mainly on the quality of communication and on the design of the milieu and the quality of everyday life. Interaction in nursing seems to be the crucial issue, including both spontaneity and creativity in the interaction partners, while respecting the personal boundaries of both the patient and the nurse in the necessary intimacy of the care environment. This essay shows important aspects and strategies of adequate communication with people with dementia from the perspective of medicine and of nursing. Ways to improve communication skills are shown, referring, among others, to the approaches by Kate Allan and John Killick (research fellows at Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling).

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