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Jeanne Irvine Kessler Jeanne Irvine Kessler

Teaching Empathy Through the Eyes of Dementia

One of my favorite stories in the book is about the time my mom shared a moment with my students one evening while I was teaching from my home.

During the Covid lockdown, I was facilitating a group of nursing students with their psychiatric clinical rotation when it got changed to an online class. My mom quietly slipped into the room and appeared behind me at my desk, where she could see the eight students faces live on my computer screen. She listened as we discussed the topic of the day.

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