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World Alzheimer's Awareness Month
September 2012 marks the first global World Alzheimer's Month, an international campaign to raise awareness and challenge stigma. The theme is: Living together. How can you help raise awareness?
-Participate in an Memory Walk
-Print an Alzheimer's Awareness month poster and post in your workplace, community, or place of worship
-Arrange for a representative from your national Alzheimer association to visit your school, office, church.
-Visit the Alzheimer's Disease Interntational I Can, I Will library, which shares others' stories who have spoken out to reduce the stigma of dementia. |
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MindStart...Creating active and joyful days
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Greetings!
September is World Alzheimer's Awareness month. This newsletter will give you updated dementia-related news and resources for dementia, so you can do your best in providing care. It will also give ideas of how you can help raise awareness of this condition and help reduce the stigma surounding it.
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Dementia Care Tips: 5 Basic Needs
People with dementia continue to have the same needs of all humans - this can be hard to remember at times.
Read this list to learn the basic needs that still remain for individuals with dementia (taken from Jane Verity of "Rekindling the Spark of Life Program", Dementia Care Australia, as interpreted from the work of Tom Kitwood):
5 Basic Needs of People with Dementia
- Need to be useful
- Need to be able to still care, for self and others
- Need to have self-esteem boosted
- Need to give and receive love
- Need to experience joy and laughter
Print or post this list to help stay mindful of the needs of those we care for. Also, consider dementia care products that you can use to provide for these 5 basic needs.
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Doing Things Together: Outdoor Landscaping Chores
Fall is the time for many landscaping chores, such as raking, pruning, planting. Involve persons with dementia in these chores:
Early Stage Dementia
-Provide a bag and rake for raking leaves. Re-direct, as needed, to keep the person on task.
-Prune overgrown bushes by bringing the person to the bush and instructing in what to do. Supervise the person for safety and to prevent over-pruning.
-Help the person plant spring-blooming bulbs by giving step by step directions and providing the needed tools.
Middle Stage Dementia
-Demonstrate and tell the person how to rake leaves. Raking might be random and repetivite, but that is okay.
-Help the person lay down mulch around plants that need protection over the winter.
-Show the person weeds to pull, to eliminate more weeds in the spring. You may need to provide step by step, continual directions - or if you help weed, the person may watch you and follow suit.
Late Stage Dementia
-Provide fall flowers, such as mums to look at and smell
-Allow the person to see, smell, and feel brightly colored fall leaves, with supervision.
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Find Us on Pinterest
Mindstart has joined Pinterest! I am so excited by this new venue to show all the ideas and ways of keeping people with dementia active! Our site has only just begun to be built, so look for more to come. If you like what you see, re-pin it for you and others to see! |
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 Until next month... Monica Heltemes, OTR/L
MindStart |
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