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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DizzyDaff, post: 4199097, member: 20323&quot;]&quot;Mother -in-law is 85, with many health conditions. Her memory is beginning to suffer&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=13814]@stracci[/USER]&nbsp; Hi, lovely old pot.</p><p>I&#039;ve taken care of and helped many older relatives and done lots of geneaology with them. I&#039;ve found that if asked a direct question, &quot;where did that old pot come from?&quot;, will recieve a &quot; I can&#039;t recall&quot;; but if you ask things like &quot;did you go somewhere to get this pot? &quot; or &quot;what did you keep in this lovely old pot?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />even if you know the answer).</p><p>When dealing with those who have memory issues, ask questons that will embrace a memory, &quot;what all did you keep in that pot?&quot;, and mostly come at the memory from another side - when I needed family info on some cousins of my gramdmothers, she couldn&#039;t recall all their names, but when I asked did she ever play with cousin&#039;s children? She immediately told me a story about playing with children of different names, (I learned to never interrupt), just wrote down the story she told and noted the names she mentioned;, once she was done, when I asked about the names, she told me, &quot;Oh that&#039;s cousin&#039;s 4 children&quot;. LOL</p><p>Our minds are sneaky things. Mostly you will need patience.</p><p>Wishing you and mother in law, health and patience with each other.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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