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Mission Statement
Dementia Today – A Better Way offers education in a style of care that will create calm in a time of storm, hope in that moment of chaos, and peace in the midst of frustration and anxiety – most often without the use of meds.
You will learn why it is important to understand what psychosocial needs are and the important role they play in creating quality of life for you and your loved one. You will also see how vital it is that you, as caregiver, be identified by your loved one as “that one that will cause them to survive.
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Modeling and cuing
Modeling is a great tool you can use to assist a loved one in completing a task. It is an important tool because it encourages successes throughout...
Tool Shed – top shelf
Welcome to the "Tool Shed - top shelf!" Tool Shed is helpful in those moments when you need a quick problem-solving idea. It's an ongoing,...
Nurturing
Nurturing is an excellent psychosocial tool that can be used to instill comfort and security in a loved one. Particularly so if they are prone to...
Emotions, feelings, activities
I There is a distinction between emotions and feelings. And there is a confused belief doing activities will upgrade a loved one's mood-state,...
The song of life
Every Wednesday, regular as clockwork, church services were held at the dementia facility where I worked. Songbooks passed around, guitars tuned...
Elsie’s life, again
I enter the living room in a locked dementia facility through white, six-panel alarmed double doors. Rounding the corner, I see 90 year old Elsie...
Activities
There are many activities your loved one still enjoys doing. Many touch on or relate to pleasures they have enjoyed their entire life. They are...
Perceptions
Family members often express sorrow in seeing "so much" decline in their loved one’s daily lives. It appears to be such a far cry from the life the...
Addiction
Addiction, while sometimes menacing, can have positive sides to it as well. Perhaps your loved one has smoked for decades, enjoying every minute of...
Survival mode applied
"WHO IS THAT ONE WHO CAN ALLEVIATE MY SURVIVAL MODE FEARS AND HELP ME TO SURVIVE?!!" This is the question infants and loved ones passionately seek...
Autonomy
Autonomy is the ability to make choices in our lives according to our own freewill. Some choices we don’t get to make. Driving on the wrong side...
Finger foods
As a loved one progresses through Stage II they sometimes develop a preference for finger foods. That is to say they no longer attempt to use...
I remember you
An important memory I personally have is of my mother. In particular I remember the day she looked at me and said, "And who might you be?" "Don't...
The logic of dementia
I first observed John and Evelyn arguing. John, filling out paperwork to admit his wife into our locked dementia facility while Evelyn's logic told...
Rosie 2 – without psychosocial validation
Rosie I enables the reader to compare outcomes resulting from using two different scenarios. In Rosie I, Psychosocial needs were addressed and met...