Person-directed Dementia Care Assessment Tool
Author: Wisconsin. Bureau of Aging and Disability Resources
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13:
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Dementia Care Mapping
Author: Anthea Innes
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDementia Care Mapping (DCM) is an assessment tool that lets you directly observe and measure a resident's of client's quality of life. This work presents a method to tackle the challenging task of assessing the true quality of life of people with dementia.
Person-centered Care in Practice
Author: Lyn Dally Geboy
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781578617722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Based on the authors' decade-long partnership of research and real-world experience in an elder and dementia care facility, the book describes their innovative, multidimensional model and process of change. An implementation action plan outlines nine basic strategies for getting started with person-centered care. A Toolkit with two dozen operational tools helps you assess your progress in incorporating person-centered care into your practice as you transform your setting for elders and persons with dementia. Clear directions for using each tool will help you navigate the road to culture change in your facility."--publisher wesbite.
Dementia
Author: Ellen Hickey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-19
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1351596446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerson-centered care for persons with dementia has been developed and expanded over the last few decades. Speech-language pathologists are uniquely positioned to understand the striking impact that communication challenges have on persons with dementia and their caregivers, and can lead the charge to improve access to communication and participation. This volume serves as a starting point and reference manual for those who want to provide person-centered and life-enhancing services to persons with dementia, and to inspire the continued generation of quality research to demonstrate the value of cognitive-communication, behavioral, and caregiver interventions. It serves as a call to action for an interprofessional team of healthcare providers across healthcare settings to promote meaningful life engagement in persons with dementia using evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches. This volume provides background on the evolution of caring for persons with dementia, as well as a description of the diagnostic process for dementia syndromes and the cognitive and communication characteristics of dementias with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s dementia. Its chapters cover the person-centered assessment process for persons with cognitive and communicative disorders of dementias; intervention approaches for the wide variety of cognitive, communicative, eating/swallowing, and behavioral symptoms and consequences of dementia syndromes; reimbursement and documentation issues for various settings in which persons with dementia are seen; and issues and challenges of quality of life and end-of-life care.
Neurocognitive Behavioral Disorders
Author: Maureen Nash
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 3030112683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDementia, now known as major neurocognitive disorder, is not one monolithic disease. Nor is behavior disturbance driven by one particular neurocognitive dysfunction. In fact if we are able to understand it, behavior is an excellent form of nonverbal communication. There are many different causes of dementia. A major challenge with both researching and implementing interventions is viewing dementia and related behaviors as single entities. This approach leaves room for critical errors in the treatment of dementia patients, beginning with misdiagnosis. This book approaches dementia by reviewing cognitive and functional assessments to provide a more accurate diagnosis, which then allows physicians to design specific interventions that are tailored to the person and their challenges. Because person centered care is vital to quality of life and longevity to an aging patient, this understanding of individual needs is vital. Written by experts in the field, this book incorporates the latest evidence-based behavioral interventions matched to specific deficits. Behavioral management focuses not on controlling behavior, but using it to teach staff and caregivers how to interpret common actions and maximize function for people with major neurocognitive disorders. Quality of life and individualized care planning will be the theme and the book will provide practical case examples. The book begins by introducing dementia and other neurocognitive illnesses, contextualizing them both historically and contemporarily. Next, the text focuses on the comprehensive assessment of a person with neurocognitive challenges in order to identify strengths and understand what the person is trying to communicate with their behavior. This process allows individualized care planning and behavioral (non-pharmacologic) management to meet the cognitive challenges and maximize individual strengths and thereby improve outcomes, making this a cutting edge resource.
Communicating Quality and Safety in Health Care
Author: Rick Iedema
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1107699320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by prominent and internationally renowned scholars, Communicating Quality and Safety in Healthcare engages healthcare trainees from across medicine, nursing and allied health services in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that confront today's healthcare teams.
Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care (Without Meters)
Author: Jennifer Brush
Publisher:
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781932529845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's abilities to express needs and desires. The ECAT is the evidence-based toolkit to help you recognize what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life. Here are the tools to assess, intervene, and modify - on an individualized basis - to ensure the quality of life for people with dementia. In three easy-to-follow steps, the ECAT Assessment Forms help you: assess activity performance with quick yes/no questions; evaluate the environment to identify barriers and problems; and pinpoint individualized recommendations for intervention. The ECAT is not only person-centered, but also real-world. ECAT's developers are both researchers and experienced clinicians who have made sure the ECAT integrates effortlessly into evaluation and treatment sessions; helps keep up caseload demands with creative solutions; satisfies regulatory requirements; leads to straightforward functional therapeutic interventions; and identifies low-cost, person-centered environmental modifications. In field-tests, 97% if professionals using ECAT reported it gave them new treatment options to use with clients with dementia. Discover for yourself the surprisingly simple environmental changes that can improve functional independence by increasing the size of sign lettering to identify spaces, using colored tape around a door handle, and encouraging social interactions by rearranging seating areas. ECAT for Dementia Care has more than 300 specific recommendations for interventions and modifications that reduce typical problems encountered during routine activities of daily living for people with dementia. With the ECAT's functionally ba
Bathing Without a Battle
Author: Ann Louise Barrick PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 2008-03-10
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780826115072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2008 AJN Book of the Year Winner! Like its popular predecessor, the new edition of Bathing Without a Battle presents an individualized, problem-solving approach to bathing and personal care of individuals with dementia. On the basis of extensive original research and clinical experience, the editors have developed strategies and techniques that work in both institution and home settings. Their approach is also appropriate for caregiving activities other than bathing, such as morning and evening care, and for frail elders not suffering from dementia. For this second edition, the authors have included historical material on bathing and substantially updated the section on special concerns, including: Pain Skin care Determining the appropriate level of assistance Transfers The environment An enhanced final section addresses ways to support caregivers by increasing their understanding of the care recipient's needs and their knowledge of interventions to improve care and comfort. It also emphasizes self-care and system-level changes to promote person-directed care. Several chapters include specific insights and wisdom from direct caregivers.
Designing Environments for People with Dementia
Author: Alison Bowes
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2019-02-08
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1787699714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This book systematically explores and assesses the quality of the evidence base for effective and supportive design of living environments for people living with Dementia.
The Validation Breakthrough
Author: Naomi Feil
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781932529937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Validation Breakthrough is an essential resource for all settings providing dementia care including assisted living facilities, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, hospice, home health care, adult day services, family care settings, and more.
