Bettering Your Service Outcomes
Caregiver support

Bettering Your Service Outcomes Through Dementia Education

The investment of educating professional healthcare providers will improve the results of the services you deliver to your clients living with dementia.  The Workforce Development Workgroup researched and wrote Workforce Gaps in Dementia Education and Training in 2017, as part of the National Research Summit: Building Evidence for Services and Supports on Dementia Care, supports this.  The number of people living with dementia continue to grow despite all the research and treatment trials.  We are facing an epidemic that is forcing families to make hard decisions regarding care for their loved one.  In most cases, institutionalization is the last option

May 21, 2019
Daughter comforts Mom
Alzheimer's Care

Home Is Where The Heart Is

“I want to go home” is a very common statement expressed by a person living with Alzheimer’s or other dementia usually voiced later in the disease process.  We need to first understand the reason behind the statement.  Finding out the “why” will allow us to better know how to respond.  Home is where most of us are most comfortable and content.  We find ourselves feeling safe, secure, and accepted.  Home is where we belong.  A person living with Alzheimer’s eventually does not know where home is.  At this point, when the person is asking to go home, what is it

February 7, 2019
Sandra Day O’Connor Understands Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer's Care

Sandra Day O’Connor Understands Alzheimer’s

Sandra Day O’Connor, our first female Supreme Court Justice has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.  She was the caregiver to her husband for years, who lived with Alzheimer’s.  If anyone understood the disease process, she did.  She’s become an example for me to honor in my trainings as she experienced what it was like to place her husband in memory care assisted living.  Understanding that her husband no longer recognized her and that as a human being still had the need for human connection and intimacy, she accepted his development of a relationship with another woman resident.  As Justice O’Connor

October 29, 2018

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