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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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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