Author: Jennifer A. Brush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932529814
Category : Dementia
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Environmental & Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care
Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care (Without Meters)
Author: Jennifer Brush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932529845
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's abilities to express needs and desires. The ECAT is the evidence-based toolkit to help you recognize what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life. Here are the tools to assess, intervene, and modify - on an individualized basis - to ensure the quality of life for people with dementia. In three easy-to-follow steps, the ECAT Assessment Forms help you: assess activity performance with quick yes/no questions; evaluate the environment to identify barriers and problems; and pinpoint individualized recommendations for intervention. The ECAT is not only person-centered, but also real-world. ECAT's developers are both researchers and experienced clinicians who have made sure the ECAT integrates effortlessly into evaluation and treatment sessions; helps keep up caseload demands with creative solutions; satisfies regulatory requirements; leads to straightforward functional therapeutic interventions; and identifies low-cost, person-centered environmental modifications. In field-tests, 97% if professionals using ECAT reported it gave them new treatment options to use with clients with dementia. Discover for yourself the surprisingly simple environmental changes that can improve functional independence by increasing the size of sign lettering to identify spaces, using colored tape around a door handle, and encouraging social interactions by rearranging seating areas. ECAT for Dementia Care has more than 300 specific recommendations for interventions and modifications that reduce typical problems encountered during routine activities of daily living for people with dementia. With the ECAT's functionally ba
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932529845
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's abilities to express needs and desires. The ECAT is the evidence-based toolkit to help you recognize what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life. Here are the tools to assess, intervene, and modify - on an individualized basis - to ensure the quality of life for people with dementia. In three easy-to-follow steps, the ECAT Assessment Forms help you: assess activity performance with quick yes/no questions; evaluate the environment to identify barriers and problems; and pinpoint individualized recommendations for intervention. The ECAT is not only person-centered, but also real-world. ECAT's developers are both researchers and experienced clinicians who have made sure the ECAT integrates effortlessly into evaluation and treatment sessions; helps keep up caseload demands with creative solutions; satisfies regulatory requirements; leads to straightforward functional therapeutic interventions; and identifies low-cost, person-centered environmental modifications. In field-tests, 97% if professionals using ECAT reported it gave them new treatment options to use with clients with dementia. Discover for yourself the surprisingly simple environmental changes that can improve functional independence by increasing the size of sign lettering to identify spaces, using colored tape around a door handle, and encouraging social interactions by rearranging seating areas. ECAT for Dementia Care has more than 300 specific recommendations for interventions and modifications that reduce typical problems encountered during routine activities of daily living for people with dementia. With the ECAT's functionally ba
Environment and Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care
Author: Jennifer A. Brush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932529807
Category : Dementia
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932529807
Category : Dementia
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Environment & Communication Assessment Tookit for Dementia Care (Complete): Ecat
Author: Jennifer Brush
Publisher: Health Professions Press
ISBN: 9781932529852
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's abilities to express needs and desires. The ECAT is the evidence-based toolkit to help you recognize what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life. Here are the tools to assess, intervene, and modify - on an individualized basis - to ensure the quality of life for people with dementia. In three easy-to-follow steps, the ECAT Assessment Forms help you: assess activity performance with quick yes/no questions; evaluate the environment to identify barriers and problems; and pinpoint individualized recommendations for intervention. The ECAT is not only person-centered, but also real-world. ECAT's developers are both researchers and experienced clinicians who have made sure the ECAT integrates effortlessly into evaluation and treatment sessions; helps keep up caseload demands with creative solutions; satisfies regulatory requirements; leads to straightforward functional therapeutic interventions; and identifies low-cost, person-centered environmental modifications. In field-tests, 97% if professionals using ECAT reported it gave them new treatment options to use with clients with dementia. Discover for yourself the surprisingly simple environmental changes that can improve functional independence by increasing the size of sign lettering to identify spaces, using colored tape around a door handle, and encouraging social interactions by rearranging seating areas. ECAT for Dementia Care has more than 300 specific recommendations for interventions and modifications that reduce typical problems encountered during routine activities of daily living for people with dementia. With the ECAT's functionally bases asse
Publisher: Health Professions Press
ISBN: 9781932529852
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's abilities to express needs and desires. The ECAT is the evidence-based toolkit to help you recognize what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life. Here are the tools to assess, intervene, and modify - on an individualized basis - to ensure the quality of life for people with dementia. In three easy-to-follow steps, the ECAT Assessment Forms help you: assess activity performance with quick yes/no questions; evaluate the environment to identify barriers and problems; and pinpoint individualized recommendations for intervention. The ECAT is not only person-centered, but also real-world. ECAT's developers are both researchers and experienced clinicians who have made sure the ECAT integrates effortlessly into evaluation and treatment sessions; helps keep up caseload demands with creative solutions; satisfies regulatory requirements; leads to straightforward functional therapeutic interventions; and identifies low-cost, person-centered environmental modifications. In field-tests, 97% if professionals using ECAT reported it gave them new treatment options to use with clients with dementia. Discover for yourself the surprisingly simple environmental changes that can improve functional independence by increasing the size of sign lettering to identify spaces, using colored tape around a door handle, and encouraging social interactions by rearranging seating areas. ECAT for Dementia Care has more than 300 specific recommendations for interventions and modifications that reduce typical problems encountered during routine activities of daily living for people with dementia. With the ECAT's functionally bases asse
Ecat Assessment Forms Pack (15 Forms)
Author: Jennifer Brush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932529838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932529838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Montessori for Elder and Dementia Care
Author: Jennifer A. Brush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781956801026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781956801026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Memory and Communication Aids for People with Dementia
Author: Michelle S. Bourgeois
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938870064
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Preceded by Memory books and other graphic cuing systems / Michelle S. Bourgeois. c2007.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938870064
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Preceded by Memory books and other graphic cuing systems / Michelle S. Bourgeois. c2007.
Designing Environments for People with Dementia
Author: Alison Bowes
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787699714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This book systematically explores and assesses the quality of the evidence base for effective and supportive design of living environments for people living with Dementia.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787699714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This book systematically explores and assesses the quality of the evidence base for effective and supportive design of living environments for people living with Dementia.
I Care
Author: Jennifer Brush and Kerry Mills
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452590737
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
"I Care is a comprehensive book that offers a greater understanding of how to manage the difficulties of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias ..."--Cover.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452590737
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
"I Care is a comprehensive book that offers a greater understanding of how to manage the difficulties of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias ..."--Cover.
Assessment Scales for Advanced Dementia
Author: Ladislav Volicer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938870385
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As internationally recognised pioneers in their field, Drs Volicer and Hurley have brought critical attention to the unique issues and needs of people in the advanced stages of dementia. In this book, they bring together a culmination of more than 20 years of research on late-stage dementia, providing the best evidence-based measurement scales available for researchers and care providers who are seeking to improve care for people in the final stages of this increasingly prevalent disease.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938870385
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As internationally recognised pioneers in their field, Drs Volicer and Hurley have brought critical attention to the unique issues and needs of people in the advanced stages of dementia. In this book, they bring together a culmination of more than 20 years of research on late-stage dementia, providing the best evidence-based measurement scales available for researchers and care providers who are seeking to improve care for people in the final stages of this increasingly prevalent disease.