Lifelong Learning and Dementia by Jocey Quinn & Claudia Blandon

Author:Jocey Quinn & Claudia Blandon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030422318
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Those very close to people with dementia are alert to this invisible ‘residue’ which others might perceive as emptiness:Oh yes, I mean I am sure you know he is engaged with, he understands, I don’t know why I say he understands… I mean, I think there is certainly at a level which is totally below words there is there is an emotional communication that is possible.JQ: Yes, yes.

I mean, I have no evidence for that except that I have seen it.

(Ann, Robert’s stepdaughter, interview)

In A Book of Silence, Sara Maitland argues for silence as a form of communication. In her case it is sought voluntarily along with solitude, but her insights have resonance for our participants too:Silence is a lack, an absence a void-silence is the negation of speech, and therefore of meaning and freedom… I go on being certain that this is wrong… Silence does not seem to be a loss or lack of language. It does not even seem to be the opposite of language. I have found it to be a whole world in and of itself. (2009, pp. 277–279).

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