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It is impossible to cure your memory |
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Accept poor memory but always try to find ways of overcoming it. |
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Use memory aids wherever possible. Why try to learn things by heart when they can easily be written down or looked up? |
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Give information clearly and simply. Someone with memory problems is going to be toiling with more than one new thing per day. |
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Repeat things often. Even people with very poor memory can learn things, but only with many repetitions, and lots of hard work! |
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Help them to make associations between new things to remember and old things they already know. For example the name of a new person may be the same as an old friend. Think of a way in which the new person is like the old friend and this association should help. |
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Be organised! Help the person have a system for things that they need to remember. Imagine their mind like a grocery cupboard, with tins of beans in one part and tins of fruit in another. If they are all jumbled together they are going to be much more difficult to find. |
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Give only as much help as they need. Before you provide the forgotten information see if they can get it themselves by giving them a clue. This should give a sense of achievement, and may make it a little easier next time. |
