Marguerite Mullaney – Providing Individualized Dementia Treatment

Where is one?-Size-Fits-All treatment plans fail. Individualized care can help patients communicate and function in everyday situations.

Marguerite Mullaney – Providing Individualized Dementia Treatment

INTRODUCTION: STAYING ON THE SAME PAGES

• Neurological changes
• Behavior changes
• Theories of intervention
• Stage a hypothetical patient
  • Physical changes
  • Cognitive changes

ASSESSMENT

• Logemann approach
• Standardized testing
• Informal assessment
• Measuring the patient’s perspective
• Measuring the caregiver’s perspective
• It is important to distinguish the strengths and the weaknesses.

TREATMENT: Part 1

• Deciding on what topic to work on
• Neuroplasticity concepts applied
• Hildred Schuell’s hierarchy
• Products that are commercially available
• Thinking outside of the box
• Participant hypothetical examples

TREATMENT: Part 2

• Interactive case studies
  • Interventions: Restorative vs. compensatory strategies
  • Cognition-Focused interventions
  • Limitations of generalization-Maintenance for the term
  • Assistive technology
  • Cognitive stimulation therapy
  • External memory aids
  • Memory-Training programs
    • Spaced retrieval
    • Learning without error
    • Procedural memory stimulation
    • Cues that vanish
    • Didactic approaches
  • Reality orientation
  • Reminiscence therapy
  • Simulated Presence Therapy
• To address the above situations, create a POC
• Participant hypothetical examples

DESIGNING TREATMENT

• Case study: complete a comprehensive cognitive/communication exam
• Develop a personalized treatment plan
  • Case study: Patient with SLUMS score of 21/30 and Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) of 3

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Description:

Working with patients with dementia can be like talking on the phone with a bad connection – maybe some words get through, but maybe they don’t. For patients, it’s a call that never ends, and over time, behaviors such as wandering, aggression, and social withdrawal can take root with the decline of communication abilities. One can only go so far.-Size-Fits-All treatment plans fail. Individualized care can help patients communicate and function in everyday situations.

This seminar will explore the most recent evidence.-Treatments that are based on the brain. Learn how to restore impaired function and compensate for deficiencies that are not retraining. Learn cognition-Focused interventions have been shown in the improvement of cognitive skills, functional ability, and performance-You can have a meaningful impact on your daily life by using assistive technologies. See how to select assistive technologies and external memory aids based on your patients’ needs, and discover which options on the market work best.

This course will also teach you how to think. “outside the box” You can create custom therapies from what you have, and offer effective take-home care-Home solutions for clinicians on a budget or frustrated with limitations in generalizing products and methods.

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