Moments Matter

Pay attention. Look at the faces of the people you lot love, head to the music of your life, experience the current of air on your face, sense of savor the H2O ice cream.

By Tom too Karen Brenner

Baca Juga

On a warm summertime afternoon equally the Chicago traffic buzzed downwardly Clark Street, nosotros sat nether the umbrellas of a sidewalk eatery watching the basis stroll by.

Next to our tabular array was a immature family, mom too dad too 2 footling boys. While the boys enjoyed their handmade H2O ice cream cones, nosotros couldn’t assistance but let on that both of their parents were completely immersed inward their paw held devices, blackberries or i phones.

Subscribe to the

Both parents were turned away from their children, too turned away from each other, staring fixedly at the modest screens inward their hands. This film of the 2 footling boys, the H2O ice cream too the totally disengaged parents made us experience too therefore sad.

We convey learned through our run alongside people who alive alongside Alzheimer’s that it is these modest moments that affair the most.

This moment: the lovely summertime sky, the colorful people walking by, the yellowish too dark-green umbrellas of the restaurant, the bloom boxes inward total bloom on the sidewalk railings, the H2O ice cream, too the footling boys’ enraptured faces, all lost to the 2 people staring into their hands.

We alive inward a marvelous historic menses of bully leaps inward technology, almost a renaissance menses of alter too growth. But if nosotros give upwards moments of engagement, moments of human relationship to this technology, nosotros volition start out to lose pieces of our lives.

These modest moments of life are what nosotros volition shout back when nosotros are older too when nosotros are dealing alongside retention loss too decline.

The people nosotros run across inward our Alzheimer’s run never utter almost their cars, or their houses or their stuff; they utter almost people too feelings too fleeting moments of memory. These moments are normally merely ordinary things, a solid unit of measurement dinner, walking domicile from school, a selection upwards game of baseball.

But these are the moments that matter; these are the moments that brand upwards our lives.

This is ane of the many lessons that nosotros convey learned working alongside people who alive alongside Alzheimer’s: moments matter.

You Say Goodbye too We Say Hello:
The Montessori Method for Positive Dementia Care

Pay attention; await at the faces of the people you lot love, head to the music of your life, experience the current of air on your face, sense of savor the H2O ice cream.

These moments are similar jewels, strung on the necklace of time. If nosotros lose these modest jewels of life, nosotros lose ourselves.

Tom too Karen Brenner are Montessori Gerontologists, researchers, consultants, trainers too writers dedicated to working for civilization alter inward the plain of aging. They convey been published inward magazines too journals both inward the U.S. of America too internationally. Learn to a greater extent than almost Tom too Karen at Brenner Pathways