Dignifying Dementia by Elizabeth Tierney

Author:Elizabeth Tierney
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-904887-70-6
Publisher: Oak Tree Press

One of our interesting struggles was getting Jim a haircut. We continued going to our salon as long as we could. It was an outing. Jim would walk into the shop that we had been going to for years, look at Diane or at David, our stylists, and his face would brighten. He would grin and say, “Hi.” After his haircut, after Carrie and I helped him out of his chair, gave him back his hat and glasses, he would reach into a non-existent pocket in search of his wallet; then we would walk to the car. Once outside, he would look at me as if I were a stranger and be unwilling to climb back into the car.

On other visits when we drove to the salon and he refused to get out of the car, Diane would come out to see whether he recognized her. Sometimes it worked; sometimes it didn’t. Increasingly he balked, so she offered to come to the house to give him a haircut. The first few visits were fine, but then he shoved her. Diane bought us a pair of clippers for Carrie to cut his hair. Carrie also clipped his nails and continued giving him his one, two or three showers a day.

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