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Dementia Care: Creating Failure Free Supportive Living

Caring for residents with dementia can be challenging yet rewarding at the same time. In this course we will encourage participation in understanding the world our residents experience each day with dementia. We will explore the senses, from sound to sight, touch and taste. Our goal is to encourage

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Dementia Care: Creating Failure Free Supportive Living

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    1. Dementia Care: Creating Failure Free Supportive Living

    2. Caring for residents with dementia can be challenging yet rewarding at the same time. In this course we will encourage participation in understanding the world our residents experience each day with dementia. We will explore the senses, from sound to sight, touch and taste. Our goal is to encourage participants to walk away with techniques to create a failure free supportive living environment in his or her assisted living and residential care community, where residents feel free and safe to experience the highest quality of life despite dementia. This course will address supportive ways to engage the resident in memorable experiences to better understand his or her care needs and desires. Course Description

    3. By the end of this course the participants will be able to: Understand the many dialects of dementia. Identify common sounds that anchor a memory for a resident with dementia, by utilizing music as a tool. Demonstrate examples of visual distortions a resident with dementia may experience. Imagine various flavors of memory and explain aromas that participate in our heritage. Course Objectives

    4. Creating a Failure Free Supportive Living

    5. Failure Free Supportive Living

    6. What are Components of the Environment? Rooms Lobby and entryway Bathrooms Elevators Kitchen and dining area environment

    7. What are Components of the Environment? (Cont.) Smells and aromas Employee demeanor and appearance Exterior of building and parking lot Outdoor areas Music or other ambient sounds environment

    8. What are Components of the Environment? (Cont.) Front desk Phone etiquette Hallways and walkways Overall condition of facility Others Environment

    9. Visual Distortions of Dementia Failure Free Supportive Living

    10. Blindness Flashes of light Double vision Poor nighttime vision Loss of peripheral vision Distortion of shapes Others Visual distortions

    11. Failure Free Assisted Living

    12. Aromas that spark memories: Homemade cookies Fresh Cut Grass Others Aromas and Flavors

    13. Flavors That are Memorable Thanksgiving foods Chocolate Other traditional foods Aromas and flavors

    14. Failure free assisted living

    15. Examples of Colors or Pictures that Residents Can Reminisce: Family photos Paintings of different places Various items such as tools, magazines, stuffed animals, etc. Period specific, iconic photos or paintings Sights and sounds

    16. Examples of Music that Encourages Memories: Jazz Country Classical Classic Rock Sights and sounds

    17. Sights and sounds

    18. Sights and sounds

    19. Sights and sounds

    20. Sights and sounds

    21. Sights and Aromas

    22. Sights and aromas

    23. Sights and aromas

    24. Sights and aromas

    25. Environment

    26. Responses to certain shapes: Shapes and colors

    27. Responses to Shapes (Cont.) Horizontal Lines Soft Curves Sharp Angled Lines Shapes and colors

    28. Responses to Colors Black Red Shapes and colors

    29. Responses to Colors (Cont.) Other Colors: Shapes and colors

    30. Many Dialects of Dementia

    31. Communicating with a Resident who has Dementia Importance of Effective Communication How Communication Works Dialects of dementia

    32. Being Understood 1. Verbal Practice communicating only using words Taking your time Dialects of dementia

    33. Being Understood (Cont.) 2. Non-verbal How to communicate with a resident who cannot talk Practice communicating without words Dialects of dementia

    34. Understanding Behavioral Communication Crying Yelling Physical Touch Others Dialects of dementia

    35. Dialects of dementia

    36. Anticipation of Resident Needs

    37. Get to Know Your Resident: Not just the Initial Assessment Communicate with resident Communicate with family of resident Communicate with resident’s physician or other parties Anticipation of Resident Needs

    38. Monitor Resident Be familiar with resident’s behavior Understand the resident’s baseline – “normal” Watch for any changes in condition Anticipation of Resident needs

    39. Be One Step Ahead! Provide training to be prepared for challenging behaviors Example: wandering and elopement Anticipation of resident needs

    40. Create An Environment That is Safe and Inviting

    41. Safe and inviting environment

    42. Bedroom: Clean Comfortable Pleasant aroma Unsoiled sheets and pillows Free of clutter And? Safe and inviting environment

    43. Lobby/Entryway: Well lit Clean/Free of clutter Plants/trees (optional) Clean aroma What else? Safe and inviting environment

    44. Outside/Parking Area Often the first thing people see Trees and lawn well maintained Parking area free of trash Parking spots easy to see What else? Safe and inviting environment

    45. Hallways: Clean and free from clutter Outfitted with appropriate safety equipment Well lit Not overly trafficked What else? Safe and inviting environment

    46. Safe and inviting environment

    47. Safe and inviting environment

    48. ANY QUESTIONS?

    49. Breakout Session

    50. Breakout Session

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