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What is SPECAL? SPECAL is a charitable organisation with an innovative approach to the care of people with Alzheimer’s, offering a very different and very successful way of managing the disease for both the person with dementia and their family. For many years, attention has focused on the negative aspects of Alzheimer’s: the person’s apparently inevitable decline into full-scale dementia, coupled with an escalating sense of guilt and distress of the family carer. SPECAL has shown that this pattern of decline need not be inevitable. On the contrary, lifelong well-being for a person with dementia can most certainly be achieved and the person’s family and other carers will benefit as well. With the SPECAL Approach, Alzheimer’s-associated memory loss does not necessarily lead to personality loss. There are even certain aspects of Alzheimer’s which can be harnessed to provide positive advantages for the person with the disease. It is important, however, that specialized care is developed as soon as possible after diagnosis. A person with Alzheimer’s will experience random, intermittent, increasingly frequent, memory blanks relating to recent events. However, in practically all cases, some memories of past events remain securely stored and can be readily recalled by the person, given the right circumstances. SPECAL uses these intact past memories in such a way that the person is able to live a relatively happy life in the present, drawing on memories of situations and activities which occurred many years ago but which still have relevance to their current lifestyle. This idea can be further explored in the reports, “Making a Present of the Past”® and "The SPECAL Photograph Album" mentioned in our Literature List. If you are interested in our current work, you may like to read our Newsletter. Take me to the Newsletter page!
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