“Your own baseline.”
This is from “The gift of Caring.” When an older person goes into the hospital, the staff takes the base line of the person as what they see right then. You may have been very active, a whiz at words, and full of creativity. Then you fall. You are given pain pills, something else happens and you are sent to the ER. Now with sloppy, slurred, enunciation, a lack of balance, and other signs of dementia. The staff assumes dementia and looks no further. For a 50 year old they would not have that bias. But for a 90 year old it just comes with the territory.” The book strongly suggests that we all have a baseline of how we are, kept up to date on a regular basis.
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