Best Friends Staff, Second Edition
...deliver optimal care and succeed in this challenging caregiving role. With this book, memory care programs can develop a “dementia capable” staff in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, dedicated memory...
Michelle Bourgeois
...investigate interventions for spousal and nursing home caregivers designed to improve the quality and quantity of communicative interactions with residents with dementia, to evaluate memory interventions for persons with dementia...
Let’s Look Together
...person with memory loss to encourage meaningful emotional connections and conversations through therapeutic brain stimulation. Research demonstrates that sensory integration in the brain reinforces and excites neural connections. Using the...
Joyce Simard
...loss. The Memory Enhancement Program (MEP) is for people experiencing memory loss beyond what is normal for their age and education. Residents in independent living and assisted living communities, as...
Unique Alzheimer’s resource revives hidden abilities
...infrequent. Searching for new ways to connect with her mother, Lydia created The Sunshine on My Face: A Read-Aloud Book for Memory-Challenged Adults, the first in the Two-Lap Book® series...
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Brain Flexers
...hands of professionals, caregivers, and people with early memory loss to strengthen mental functioning. Targeted brain fitness activities work to exercise many areas of cognition, such as memory, attention, focus,...
New book from HPP provides the tools to create a successful orientation program in long-term care
...concise step-by-step guide, walking readers through defining the culture of a community, establishing an organization’s needs, skills testing and the evaluation process, and other essential elements needed for a successful...
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Understanding and Preventing Harmful Interactions Between Residents with Dementia
Professional care providers can learn ways to avoid one of the most difficult and often tragic problems to occur in care settings: When residents with memory loss act in ways...
Empowered Work Teams in Long-Term Care
...include assessment forms, staff training materials, and step-by-step implementation guidelines. Guidance and troubleshooting tips are provided in the resources’s final chapter. Facility and program administrators, directors of nursing, staff supervisors,...
Bird Tales
...about something they’ve enjoyed doing in the past. Now, with this training DVD plus accompanying step-by-step program guide, you will have the tools and information you need to start your...
