Dementia

In this webinar, evidence-based behavior management and intervention strategies related to pain management, communication, emotional/cognitive state, sensation, agitation, and wandering are examined to help providers reduce unwanted behaviors without relying on medications.

In this session, participants will learn from a Montessori specialist about the Montessori principles of independence according to one’s ability, and the benefits of the prepared environment.

Caregivers and nursing home staff play a pivotal role in minimizing social isolation, loneliness, depression, and behaviors in persons with dementia.  Isolation does not need to equal decline!  This session will review practical and cost-effective strategies care providers can implement to impact these areas. 

In this session, participants will learn how sensory stimulation impacts the person living with dementia.  Participants will learn how to set up a room or a space in their community using best practice design principles.  This session will offer a “design on a dime” approach to a sensory room and demonstrate to providers how to set up a room or space of their own so they can further impact the quality of life of persons with dementia without relying on pharmacology.

Using Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care (PAC) Information, Retha and Lindsey will work through the basics of how the left and right side of the brain functions in a person who is living with dementia. 

The program offers a four-step process to follow and provides details that may be applied to any behavior.