This information has been written primarily for someone who has epilepsy and memory problems. If you are close to someone who has epilepsy and memory problems, it may help to improve your understanding of the difficulties they face and how they might handle them. You can help, whether you are a close relative, friend or work colleague, by following these simple guidelines:
Do
- Try to understand what their difficulties are.
- Be a bit more patient than usual.
- Support them by accepting the ways that they try to cope with their memory difficulties.
- Adapt your way of relating to them.
Don’t
- Patronise or do everything for them.
- Make too many demands or have high expectations that require a great deal of memory recall.
- Tidy up or put things away if that disrupts their way of coping.
- Interrupt them when they are talking or concentrating on something.
We can provide references and information on the source material we use to write our epilepsy advice and information pages. Please contact our Epilepsy Helpline by email at helpline@epilepsy.org.uk.
Code:
B099.02
This information is exempt under the terms of The Information Standard.
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Updated February 2011To be reviewed February 2013
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