Creating a fulfilling, joyful, interactive environment for a loved one with dementia can bring challenges as well as deep rewards. Here are our specialized areas of focus:
- Understanding & communicating, with emphasis on body language and tone of voice, not words
- Establishing personalized, meaningful rituals rather than routines
- Activities such as music, art, story telling, gardening, aromatherapy or other specially designed projects that spark creativity, past memory, and self-esteem
- Resolving the unmet needs behind challenging behaviors
- Employment of memory tactics such as word pictures, hydration, de-stressors
Here are additional concrete examples of what we’ll use together to grow, as applicable to the particular partnership that forms between care partners:
- Conversations
- Friendship
- Taking walks
- Visiting friends and neighbors
- Exploring life
- Travel companion – local & abroad
- Reading
- Conversation
- Gardening
- Correspondence with loved ones (email, letters, Skype, etc.)
- Encouragement and companionship
- Personal hygiene, bathing, dressing, toileting, hair & skin care
- Cooking, meal preparation and clean up
- Medication reminders and supervision
- Hourly or live-in care
- Bath visits
- Overnights
- Grocery shopping
- Escort to medical and personal appointments
- Bed-bound assistance & care
- Secretarial support
- Scheduling appointments
- Organizing, correspondence, and insurance liaison
- Light housekeeping
- Laundry
- Maintaining a clean, comfortable home
Learn about our powerful Dimentia In-Home Coaching.
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