When the principle is applied to interactions with people who have Alzheimer's, "it allows the conversation to continue in a more positive way and leads to less frustration," says Stobbe, who lives in Black Mountain, NC. "Yes, and." is a basic tenet of improvisational acting: You accept whatever the other person says and build on it. Courtesy: Memory Ensemble/Lookingglass Theatre Company (LTC) Instead, she recalled her training as an improvisational actor and replied, "Yes, and tell me which one you dated? What was that like?" Participants in a Memory Ensemble workshop in Chicago. Stobbe's initial urge was to dispute her mother's claim as impossible. In the years after her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Karen Stobbe remembers listening to a Beatles song and hearing her mother tell her she had dated one of the musicians.
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