So today there’s a headline I received from a University of Kansas study, and I don’t know about you, but I found it disturbing that we even have such a study …Conducted by researchers at the University of Kansas, the study found that cognitively impaired people react badly when spoken to as if they were infants. Researchers videotaped 20 people with moderate dementia to discover their reactions to demeaning dialogue. Adults who were talked down to were twice as likely to resist care – by crying out, hitting, kicking, yelling or other methods – than those who were spoken to as adults.The article about the study went on to say that when they are spoken to in elderspeak,’ they may feel they are not getting the respect they feel they deserve, but are unable to communicate their distress, so they act out in disruptive ways.Elderspeak? Baby Talk? People are people and should be treated with the utmost dignity, even when their mind suffers from dementia … your thoughts?