Behaviours that challenge us

Responding to emotional distress, expressions of anger and excessive walking.

Sometimes feelings and emotions can cause people with dementia to behave in ways that are unusual to them and are a result of the dementia. These behaviours can sometimes challenge others to understand what the person is communicating. For example,

• hitting out in an angry way
• walking around all the time
• difficulty in self monitoring behaviour with others
• not co-operating when being helped with caring tasks
• constantly repeating the same thing
• shouting out loudly, and
• putting things in places where they cannot be found.