Activities "Plus" Improve Alzheimer's Care.(Episcopal Church Home)(Brief Article)

Nursing Homes | June 1, 2001| | Copyright

This facility brought new concepts of staffing and activities to care for residents with moderate dementia--and got results

Imagine being in a large room with 40 or so people who are wandering, talking to themselves or talking gibberish, yelling, crying, staring into space or sleeping. Some are looking for their parents; some ask how to get home; one person, who appears to be lost, is repeatedly hollering for the nurse; and some are clustered in reclining chairs around the nurses' station. One resident keeps trying to stand up and sets off a chair alarm, while another is ...

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