@vincentdonofrio Awesome idea is to send current photos via smartphones to your sib(s) or whoever is hands-on caregiver & around Mom most so they can look at them together & enjoy them. Something your gifted photographer wife can do to help & will ease visits in person or at...
https://twitter.com/TommyTommytee18/status/1373213992081100802
...a distance via 'technology'. The technology may be making it harder on you Mom's vision to recognize you as you are so your voice may also become important. Consider sending her voice notes to listen to (talking, singing old favorite songs, reading her favorite poems, jokes...
...it's another way to reinforce her familiarity with you & using what her brain is less likely to lose, hearing is a lot less impacted by all the brain changes of the various illnesses that cause dementia than sight is. Sight requires a lot more of brain to work than hearing...
...as an actor @vincentdonofrio use all those senses to reach her (you have invaluable training & experience, sense memories, storytelling, improvisation, being in the moment, going with your gut feelings, reading your partner who in this case is your Mom. You have much to try)🤗
The technology might blunt your impact for distance visits but you have great good fortune to know how to work with it, to work around its limitations, to move people. What you can do on a bigger screen you can do on a smaller 1. So adapt & create. Experiment. Much love to you!
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