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What People With Dementia Can Teach Us About Authentic Communication Posted: 16 Dec 2016 10:18 AM PST While the Midwest suffered a severe recession in the 1980s, I made the decision to enter graduate school after earning a degree in nonverbal and interpersonal communications. Three-and-a-half decades after earning my master's degree, I am further refining my own skills, thanks to some unlikely teachers: people with dementia. It may seem counterintuitive, but connecting with people with Alzheimer's, Lewy bodies, frontotemporal lobe and related cognitive-impairing dementias requires us to draw on a wide-range of tools.

Crashing at Grandma's? College students to bunk with elderly Posted: 16 Dec 2016 06:41 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Ah, college. Halls of ivy. Stimulating class discussions. All-night cram sessions. Sleeping in an old woman's apartment?

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