Misunderstanding Dementia Podcast

 How Do You Communicate? What do your non-verbal signs convey? Most of the time, I go to a patient, I come in, I show my verbal and non-verbal signs and it really works! What are these verbal signs that we're talking about? V.E.R.B.A.L V - VOICE What's your voice? Are you raising your voice up? lowering down your voice? Do you have a big voice? You have to know what kind of voice are you showing to your patients. Is it a good sounding voice? or is it a positive voice? You need to learn how to do that E - ENGAGING Are you engaging with your patient? Are you engaging or connecting with that person? R- REACTIVE Are you being reactive? We don't want to be reactive, we want to be PRO-ACTIVE. In the  Philippines, when I was working as a Medical Representative, we have this conference and we called it PRO-ACT. Basically, we are being pro-active with the plans that we have in life. So, we want to be pro-active instead of reacting. When we are talking to a person and we don't agree with their opinions, we tr