{"id":5099,"date":"2020-09-14T17:55:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:26:17","slug":"5099","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2020\/09\/14\/5099\/","title":{"rendered":"A mother and son’s journey through dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tony Luciani | TEDxCambridge <\/strong>| May 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I practiced my newfound camera skills with Mom as portrait model. Through all of this, she talked, and I listened. She’d tell me about her early childhood and how she was feeling now. We had each other’s attention. Mom was losing her short-term memory, but was better recalling her younger years. I’d ask, and she would tell me stories. I listened, and I was her audience. I got ideas. I wrote them down, and I sketched them out. I showed her what to do by acting out the scenarios myself. We would then stage them. So she posed, and I learned more about photography. Mom loved the process, the acting. She felt worthy again, she felt wanted and needed. And she certainly wasn’t camera-shy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n