Video Tips: Redirection Technique for Your Person with Dementia
If your person with dementia is trying to leave the house or go into a particular room that you don’t want them to, here is a redirection technique you can use:
Try to distract the person with an object (flowers, a painting, an animal) or question that grabs his or her attention. Ask that person’s opinion about the object or question. This will engage his or her interest so that hopefully the other destination or “errand” is forgotten.
This strategy works much better than forbidding or punishing the person for trying to leave!