{"id":16115,"date":"2020-10-21T07:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brainsparks.com.au\/?p=16115"},"modified":"2020-10-21T07:19:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:19:55","slug":"noise-levels-dementia-creating-a-safe-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsparks.com.au\/noise-levels-dementia-creating-a-safe-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Noise Levels & Dementia: Creating a Safe Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a person living with dementia, hearing is often the sense that has the most significant impact in terms of their quality of living. This reason for this is that dementia can impact how a person perceives external stimuli, such as noise and light<\/a>. In addition, hearing is linked to balance, which means a person with dementia may be at greater risk of falling in an environment that is loud and overstimulating as this may lead to disorientation.<\/p>\n

The level of sensitivity to noise can change for a person with dementia as the disease progresses, or even during the course of the day, as they may become more tired. A person living with dementia has a reduced ability to understand their sensory environment, so they will often react to it. As such, noise alone can be enough to trigger an outburst from a person with dementia; however even in milder cases, if other senses are also overloaded, a dramatic change in their behaviour may occur.<\/p>\n

The following are some of the common noises that occur in a household that may be problematic for a person with dementia.<\/p>\n