Tool Kit. Strategies to facilitate eating and swallowing in people living with early-stage dementia

17 Dementia is a condition that affects cognition, which is how we process information and respond to various stimuli in daily life. Eating is affected by cognitive changes, such as forgetting that one has already eaten (memory), maintaining focus during mealtime (attention), organizing the stages of the feeding process (executive functions), and being unable to express food preferences or reasons for not eating (language). Cognitive Communication Skills 1