Idk, maybe just a little rad

Theft of substance, Remedios Varo

Flower Garden 1907

As its shown in the movie, Mama Coco has some form of non-Alzheimers dementia. Spending time with her, keeping her at home among loving relatives, and INVOLVING her in various parts of daily living is important for multiple reasons.

- talking to Coco and engaging her on a regular basis helps her to feel like she belongs, even if she can’t remember. This is an important part of our heiarchy of needs: love and belonging.

- It encourages Coco to feel at ease. This is incredibly important for those who live with with, and actually aids in easing the progress of the disease (depending on what it is she loves with).

- It helps to normalize the moments of clarity she undoubtedly has from time to time. When a loved one with dementia is removed from home or ignored during their confusion, it makes it hard for them to verbalize their clearer thoughts. They don’t understand why it is that they’re in the wrong place, causes anxiety and further confusion.

- It helps the family recognise when Mama Coco is deteriorating. Most of the time, when a family member is ignored, pushed aside, or sent away, only to be seen on special occasions like some kind of family china or something, the change in their afflicted family member is a jarring shock that drives the family further away. With a family that spends time and care with their loved ones, they’re more receptive to the stages and the process of the disease, and usually a lot more understanding of what’s happening.

Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted

Brazil’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire, and much of its archive of 20m items is believed to have been destroyed.

The fire at Rio de Janeiro’s 200-year-old National Museum began after it closed to the public on Sunday and was still raging during the night. There have been no reports of injuries, but the loss to Brazilian science, history and culture is incalculable, two of its vice-directors said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how the fire began.

“It was the biggest natural history museum in Latin America. We have invaluable collections. Collections that are over 100 years old,” Cristiana Serejo, one of the museum’s vice directors, told the G1 news site.

Marina Silva, a former environment minister and candidate in October’s presidential elections said the fire was like “a lobotomy of the Brazilian memory”.

The museum was part of Rio’s Federal University but had fallen into disrepair in recent years. Its impressive collections included items brought to Brazil by Dom Pedro I – the Portuguese prince regent who declared the then-colony’s independence from Portugal – Egyptian and Greco-Roman artefacts, “Luzia”, a 12,000 year-old skeleton and the oldest in the Americas, fossils, dinosaurs, and a meteorite found in 1784. Some of the archive was stored in another building but much of the collection is believed to have been destroyed.

The wosrt part for me is that the museum was operating with half their budget for years despite the fact that it had such rare items like an egyptian sarcophagus that was never opened! (by request of the emperor that bought it) Also there is no other natural history museum in Brazil, not even in São Paulo (Brazil's biggest city).