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Dana Shavin

Contributor Dana Shavin

Dana’s essays and articles have appeared in Garden and Gun, Oxford American, The Sun, Fourth Genre, Today.com, Appalachian ReviewLongridge ReviewPsychology TodayParade,Bark, The Writer, AARP’s The Ethel, and Travel+Leisure.comShe is an award-winning humor columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, and the author of a memoir, The Body Tourist (Little Feather Books, 2014)and Finding the World: Thoughts on Life, Love, Home and Dogs, a collection of her most popular columns spanning twenty years. You can find more at Danashavin.com, and follow her on Facebook at Dana Shavin Writes. 

 

A caregiver helping to feed their loved one with dementia. Next Avenue, aphasia, language

Your Loved One Can't Speak — But What Do They Understand?

With dementia patients and others who cannot communicate, does the inability to form language alter the content of their thoughts?
March 20, 2025
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