San Antonio Express News: Leaders push to make San Antonio a better place for people with dementia
Posted on: Friday, October 5th, 2018
When Mary Lou Rodriguez tells people she has Alzheimer’s disease, she has come to anticipate a common response.
Often, they will turn to her husband, or her daughter, and talk with them instead.
“It’s like all of a sudden, I’m not there,” said Rodriguez, 75. “They stop looking at you. It’s like you become a nonentity.”
She knows that people do this only because they do not know how to react to her diagnosis. But their subtle responses add to the cumulation of difficulties she faces in coping with the disease.