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Skills for coping with what? Persons with MCI or in very early stage dementia can often be taught ways of coping with memory loss or excessive sleepiness or lack of appetite. If the dementia progresses they may lose those coping skills.
In a way, persons with dementia do come up with coping on their own. They are afraid something valuable will be stolen. (Heaven knows they are experiencing loss!) So they cope by hiding those things. Not a very successful strategy considering they can't remember that they hid these things, but it is an attempt to cope with fears and paranoia.
Rioishere, do you have specific examples or concerns? Maybe we could give more specific responses then.