Learning Center for Alzheimer's & Dementia: Donna's blog
Care & Construction
In 2011 a research project called Care and Construction was started in Nova Scotia, spearheaded by the Mount Saint Vincent Centre on Aging. The purpose of the project was to assess and identify factors that affect resident quality of life in different nursing home models of care
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Hidden Musical Talent
We often talk about the importance of encouraging someone with Alzheimer's or dementia to return to an old hobby, or even develop a new hobby while they are still able to do so. We wrote about it in our recent article about Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and we suggest it as a way to help a person with dementia
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Dementia Activity "Blitz"
Here's something that you can try that has proven very successful for me. I call it an Activity "Blitz".
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Making Daily Interactions More Meaningful
While there are ten Montessori Principles for dementia care that are the cornerstone of the Montessori Methods for Dementia that we teach, the first three can be applied by everyone to almost every interaction with people with Alzheimer's or dementia, every day. It takes no extra time, just a little thought.
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Knowing the Person
This past Remembrance Day, the importance of knowing the person was made dramatically clear to me. I visited a long term memory care home to help out.
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