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Free Memory Aids Guide for Caregivers!
Join our email list and download your copy of this guide to memory aids! This free, family-friendly guide outlines the information and resources for developing individualized memory books and reminder cards to enhance the language and memory skills of your loved one.
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The Best Friends™ Approach Free Downloadable Materials
These 13 handouts are free for you to download and will introduce you to the Best Friends™ approach, a highly successful model for dementia care that puts the person first. Adopted world-wide, this easy-to-implement approach is built on the essential elements of friendship—respect, empathy, support, trust, and humor. Use these handouts to learn the foundations of this approach and how effortlessly it can be adopted in your organization. Visit our Best Friends site for more information and resources on this approach and its related products and training.
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The Dementia Bill of Rights
The universal touchstone for dementia care reflects the underlying core principles of the Best Friends™ philosophy, stressing compassion, empathy, and respect in the face of a devastating disease. The 12 basic rights outlined here recognize the dignity of what every person diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia deserves. Also available in Spanish!
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Dementia Beyond Drugs Reading Guide
Reducing the use of psychotropic dugs in the symptomatic treatment of dementia is key to successfully implementing compassionate, person-centered practices in your organization. The bestselling Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care, Second Edition by G. Allen Power, M.D. shows clearly why and how it can be done. This reading guide is meant to assist you in engaging more deeply with the text. The questions included here for each chapter will prompt you to think critically about what you’ve read and encourage and facilitate discussion on the topics.
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Social Isolation Risk Factor Checklist
Nothing causes seniors to experience a greater decline in health and emotional well-being than social isolation. Producing more than just feelings of loneliness and hopelessness, social isolation makes seniors less safe, puts them at greater risk for financial, emotional, or physical abuse, and may contribute to rapid deterioration. Use this checklist to help you begin to identify people with potential risk factors for becoming socially isolated.
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Caring for People with Challenging Behaviors Free Downloads
Caring for People with Challenging Behaviors: Essential Skills and Successful Strategies in Long-Term Care, Second Edition by Stephen Weber Long, Ph.D. provides professional and home-based caregivers with easy-to-understand and powerfully effective ways to prevent, reduce, or eliminate the challenging behaviors of care recipients. The book’s proven intervention tools and strategies will help caregivers to identify and satisfy the basic human needs that underlie challenging behaviors, as well as encourage and reinforce positive behaviors. The book is filled with sample posters, handouts, exercises, and forms. Download four of these examples now!
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