ABSTRACT
This chapter provides case study examples of persons with dementia. Home care helpers tell a range of stories about the persons with dementia they help some nice, some not so nice. Persons with dementia can do or say things that helpers find unpleasant and irritating. Daily confrontation with irritating behaviour, communication problems or unfulfillable requests can make work tiresome and difficult. This can cause home helpers to have a number of emotional reactions. Thankfulness, dependence, honesty, spontaneity and humour are the other side that balance the difficult aspects of this work. This can stimulate many positive feelings to continue your work. Some workers will be able to balance these feelings in themselves more easily than others. Helpers have to deal with a complicated interplay of relationships and reactions in their work. They are confronted not only with the sufferer's relationship to themselves, but also the sufferer's behaviour towards the family.
