The physical condition of dementia patients :

The Tricky next step so as your monthly email with the latest research interesting reads occupation activity; click here to wanted months of booking time with the champions. They also do a lot of support and education with them about physical health. Because the team’s now expanded, the champions can ask to learn about anything. So you know they can access the salt, the physios, and our physical health nurses, anything they’re interested in, so they have done teaching sessions on Parkinson’s. You know, medications and things like that as well, so it’s not just about dementia; it’s about how dementor interacts with that person’s physical conditions.

Once a year, they hold a dementia champions forum, so they’ve been getting people together, which they think the following few slides will talk about in a minute. Also, we keep the champions in touch with each other. So click here; they’ve all got each other’s emails, and they permit us to give each other’s emails so they can share ideas and get support from each other. So far, the champions forum has had three; one was a pro. The first one was a full day in a room in a care home, and the general sort of format looked at the celebration of achievements. They did a training session on oral health, nutrition, and hydration.

Then they looked at the confidence levels of people talking to others, i.e., managers and seniors, about how to bring about change and the challenges in the homes. People face and plan for the future, so they do some personal work with that. The second one they held was in a pub which was much more successful, not just because it was in a pub but because there were fewer distractions. Because they found having a room in a care home was quite disruptive, and they were distracted quite a lot.

Concept of intensive interaction :

They had it in an upstairs room in a pub; it was another full day, and they looked at advancing dementia biology: brain changes and the concept of intensive interaction. So click here to learn more about advanced dementia and how people have managed that. Successful people loved getting out, going to the venue, and being given permission not to work for the day and look at things closely. They enjoyed that, so they held the third one in the same pub and then focused on physical health. They looked at personality, and we also looked at the social aspects of the person.

The social environment again was great because it was getting people to look at how physical health affects somebody’s dementia—behavior and what they can do and what they have to do to escalate that information. The next slide shows a couple of pictures of us doing marvelous work. So the picture on the top to the left shows they devised a snake and ladders physical health game. People had to, you know, answer questions about physical health. When they landed on certain squares, the photo below was the environment and designing their environments. Based on what research suggests for people with dementia, the image on the right was just about getting people to think about the different body parts.