05 Mar Review: “6 Books to Add to Your 2024 Reading List on Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Aging.” (being patient)
“For people from a more scientific or medical background, caregiving can be a tricky balancing act. ‘One of the things that I think a lot of caregivers sort of understand intuitively, and this is where my being a doctor may have interfered with my caregiving, or my optimal caregiving, is that there’s a difference between lying to someone for your own benefit and for their benefit,’ as Sandeep Jauhar explained in his live talk with Being Patient, ‘Telling the truth when it causes tremendous anguish isn’t worth it. It actually doesn’t matter.'”
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