Category: Archive: Feb 2024

Dementia Care: Change Begins with Us

This post is adapted from Getting Dementia Care Right: What’s Not Working and How It Can Change by Anne Ellett, M.S.N., NP. Copyright © 2023 by Health Professions Press, an imprint of Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Memory care is the fastest-growing area of senior living. Yet over the past many years, while there has been a proliferation of new attractive modern buildings, I have seen a lack of innovation and resources put toward staffing and education that would humanize and honor the human rights of residents with dementia. In the majority of residential care…

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Validation Q&A with the Authors

Guidance from the Authors on Using Validation Are you currently using the Validation method in your care setting? Do you have questions? Authors of The Validation Breakthrough, Fourth Edition, Naomi Feil and Vicki de Klerk-Rubin, answer some frequently asked questions from people using Validation. New to Validation? Learn more here! I’ve tried Validation, but my client won’t talk with me. Why doesn’t it work? Which Validation techniques did you use? Did you Center and establish the phase of Resolution? If the older adult is in Phase Three, verbal techniques may not work. If your client feels…

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