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Inspired by things @sdbaral and @hearing_girl said and my research and work:
#memorysplaining: when people w/o memory loss tell older adults with dementia to remove themselves from public life for "their own good" during COVID but don't care about their well-being otherwise
#memorysplaining: when people w/o memory loss tell older adults with dementia to remove themselves from public life for "their own good" during COVID but don't care about their well-being otherwise
#memorysplaining, example 2: assuming that everyone can hold it in until they find a public bathroom, assuming that they can find it or go in on their own (cf. #bladdersplaining)
#memorysplaining, example 3: publicly shaming older adults for not following COVID rules with ageist or condescending comments like "it's still a global pandemic" rather than something kind or helpful
#memorysplaining, example 4: closing off common social services, social infrastructure, or paths without explaining alternatives or helping folks with memory loss or their care partners get to them ( @jbauah and I discussed this at length over the summer)
#memorysplaining, example 5: implementing rules to keep people safe from COVID but only using incredibly condescending ways to explain them to older adults with memory loss, or assuming that they can't be communicated with at all
(plug here for the @dfamerica_ training, do it)
(plug here for the @dfamerica_ training, do it)
#memorysplaining, example 6: assuming that people can cook at home, can cook at all, and not considering the reality of different food needs (and how undiagnosed memory loss affects the ability to get food or cook at all); then shaming people for getting food a certain way
#memorysplaining, example 6 cont.: reminder here that processed food is incredibly important, @rachellaudan's A Plea for Culinary Modernism has so much applicability for the pandemic, especially re: older adults with memory loss and their care partners: https://rampages.us/fi072/wp-content/uploads/sites/14240/2016/03/Laudan.pdf
#memorysplaining, example 7: using older adults with dementia as political pawns for justifying certain interventions but considering their lives less worthy of receiving medical care (cf. "eugenics")
#memorysplaining, example 8: taking a punitive approach to older people not remembering XYZ rules around the pandemic rather than doing what we know works from wayfinding and planning: repeated, gentle, well-worded, well-illustrated, well-placed information
#memorysplaining, example 9: assuming that older adults with memory loss won't be in public b/c of COVID, and then not doing anything around access using that as a justification
(Want to know more dementia-friendly spaces? I wrote about this for @ggwash: https://ggwash.org/view/79427/good-urban-design-can-make-greater-washington-more-dementia-friendly)
(Want to know more dementia-friendly spaces? I wrote about this for @ggwash: https://ggwash.org/view/79427/good-urban-design-can-make-greater-washington-more-dementia-friendly)
#memorysplaining, example 10 and deeply ironic: listening to a younger man like me without memory loss before considering or listening to your older neighbors with memory loss, their care partners, and their loved ones
[Again, see @dfamerica_ and also the @aarp for resources]
[Again, see @dfamerica_ and also the @aarp for resources]
