Memory Care: Setting the Stage

• Defining the Environment
• Factors in the Environment that effect our residents with dementia
• Environmental Cues or Signals
• Sensory Input
• Routine in the Environment
• Unfamiliar Environment
• Purpose of Activities for People with Dementia
• Activity Programs that Work: what they are and how to do them
• Understanding the Purpose of Appraisals
• Timing: When are appraisals needed
• Understanding Care Planning
• Making a good care plan
• Record keeping
  

Part 1: Environment IS Important

• How to spot the little things in the environment that make a big difference to the person with dementia
• How to modify the environment in simple ways to make positive differences
• How strongly the environment affects the senses
• How behavior is changed by environmental changes
  

Part 2: Let’s Have Fun with Activities

• The difference “having fun” makes in our daily lives
• Why activities are important- to the individual with dementia, as well as to visitors and staff
• Simple activities anyone can do
• How to incorporate activities into daily living tasks
  

Part 3: Appraisal and Care Planning Skills

• The purpose of appraisals
• Crucial time points to do new appraisals and care plans
• Special care planning considerations for memory-impaired people
• What a care plan is, and how to develop one using an easy step-by-step approach

• NAB: This educational offering has been reviewed by the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) and approved for 6 clock hours.
• California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS): PCE # 3291
• California RCFE and ARF: Approval pursuant to NAB and BBS approval
• California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians (LVN):#V-10621
• Oregon Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators: 2007-040: General 6 Ethics:0
• Michigan Department of Human Services: Approved for Adult Foster Care Administrators pursuant to Rules 400.14203 and 400.15203
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment: Approval #: LTS -A1138