Good ideas & perspectives from people with a positive approach to living with dementia (for diagnosed people and care partners)
I borrowed this dvd using the interlibrary loan system. I really wanted to see it because I knew several of the speakers are leaders with cutting edge ideas and perspectives on how diagnosed person and caregiver can continue to live joyful, purposeful life in spite of the disease. Richard Taylor is well known as a diagnosed person who is a writer and speaker about how it feels to have alzheimer's and how people with dementia want to be treated. Al Powers and Bill Thomas are doctors and leaders in field of creating care facilities that provide happy, purposeful, engaging environments, by training staff and counseling family caregivers. Judy Berry opened two care facilities of her own after seeing the untrained care her mother received and the devastating effect it had on her mother's daily life - her facililites are models for true person centered care for people with dementia, and use care approaches which nearly eliminate the use of sedating drugs by understanding the needs of...
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