Cohousing-L Mailing List: members with dementia

[Helen Lauritzen (hlauritz]

Have any of you dealt with a member suffering from dementia who makes 
consensus difficult for the group?  We are an aging group and have one 
person who is usually rational and intelligent but gets confused in 
meetings and is unable to move from thought to thought.  He therefore gets 
stuck in a position, which usually results in his blocking consensus.  Do 
you think a form of consensus minus one would work, whereby the person 
blocking has a set period of time in which to persuade another member of 
their blocking concerns?  We'd like to hear your suggestions, experiences, 
thoughts.

Helen Lauritzen, RoseWind