Benefits Of Reborn Baby Dolls To Alzheimer's And Dementia Patients
Long ago, dolls are just considered as plain dolls- inanimate and fake-looking
. For years, dolls have the same look and feel. The emergence more superior types of dolls have stopped the stereotype of dolls fake and plain. The advent of reborn baby dolls have given dolls a whole new look and feel.
Yet, the captivation of everybody on the realism of reborn dolls has not stop there. Reborn dolls have exceeded the notion of just being realistic-looking dolls. When they started to penetrate the mainstream media and the doll industry. reborn baby dolls become instantly popular. Today, these lifelike baby dolls have achieved mass media coverage, not only as valuable collector's items, but also as effective treatment adjuncts to Alzheimer's and Dementia patients.
It is noteworthy to recognized the valuable benefits of reborn baby dolls in the therapy of Alzheimer's and dementia patients. Though reborn doll therapy is not that established in the medical world, there are a few accounts and experiences when reborn dolls produced positive effects in dementia and Alzheimer's patients. Primarily, reborn doll therapy success in patients is credited to the reduction of patients' dependency in psychotropic medications.
In dementia patients, reborn doll therapy helps in the reduction of withdrawals. It also helps in overcoming communication crisis between the patient and carer. Records show that female dementia patients respond more better to the reborn doll therapy. Female dementia patients respond positive to reborns as these dolls help them reminisce the times when they were still housewives and very productive. As they adopt the reborn doll in their therapy, the patients' memories as parents are recollected. As they consider the doll their child, it will revive the moments in their lives when they were useful, productive, being loved, and being able to love.
Reborn doll therapy is usually introduced in the early to middle stages of Alzheimer's. This is done so that the patient will get used to the doll. As the disease progresses, they are bonded with the doll already. Although at the earlier stages, the patient might be able to identify the doll as not real. However, they will enjoy the pleasures of naming it and changing its clothes. In the long run, the patient may communicate with the doll and find solace in its presence. They will become calm and somehow open to communication with their carers.
In any means, reborn doll therapy is not exactly the cure to dementia and Alzheimer's. The patients will not be back to their former selves. this therapy is just an adjunct to make the patient more comfortable, cooperative, and open to communicate. The reborn doll therapy can somehow provide the patients with the feeling of self worth and belongingness.
Evidently, reborn dolls have somehow established to be beneficial because their advantages are incontestable. This is why these dolls have gained better interests among the public. Reborns for sale are increasingly clustering in shops and online stores.
by: Andrew Scherer.
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