In fact, many local seniors living with dementia in San Marcos and nearby areas value their independence and want to maintain it for as long as possible by staying in their own homes. After all, home is where the heart is, so we can't say we blame them. That's why at Visiting ...
Walking along we came across a fire on the bank of the canal and a small group of children nearby. At first the couple express their concern but then swing into action: M: Why have they got a fire here? I don't like that, it shouldn't be I: Are the kids burning something? M...
When I was a new OT working in a skilled nursing home, I made this mistake with a patient who experienced frequent hallucinations with fear-based aggression behaviors. We were in his room and he began insisting there was a man in the corner, becoming more and more agitated. In my attempt...
Flooding has made some roads inaccessible and has led to hazardous driving conditions. Commercial buildings and homes have suffered water damage. There have been numerous water rescues, including one from the rooftop of a hospital in a nearby county. ...
Additionally, to support terminal illness of persons with dementia during the pandemic, the usage of electronic and audiovisual programs were advised for end-of-life planning, dealing with bereavement, and information sharing between nursing homes and families and to provide a useful avenue of support...
A limited amount of research has examined how nature-based palliative rehabilitation can be implemented in nursing homes for people with dementia, even though evidence suggests that these gardens are underused. This paper will present the study protocol of an intervention study co-designed in an inte...
Around one in four people with dementia with either a disabled spouse or a child living nearby, or no spouse but a child living nearby, were also likely to live in a nursing home after eight years following a dementia diagnosis. Living with a spouse, regardless of disability...
An ongoing intervention in 40 palliative care services in Europe, in- cluding hospitals, hospices, nursing homes and primary care settings, performed as part of the IMPACT pro- ject, in which this set of QIs is used as starting point to assess the organisation of palliative care, will ...
'You can get in alright but you can't get out:' social exclusion and men with dementia in nursing homes: insights from a single case study Q. Ageing, 8 (2) (2007), pp. 16-26 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Beach and Bamford, 2014 B. Beach, S. Bamford Isolation: the Emerging...
In the homes, the music therapist can come up with individually tailored ideas that can improve the daily life of the couple. Ultimately, such a program can delay nursing home admission, which is regarded as an important goal according to the Alzheimer’s Association (2018). The goal of the...