The Virtual Dementia Tour An Essential Alzheimer's Tool
"The solution to Alzheimer's affliction today as well as inwards the foreseeable futurity is inwards developing a meliorate as well as to a greater extent than personal agreement of the day-to-day challenges facing those amongst the disease. The Virtual Dementia Tour® programme is a tool that makes that agreement possible." P.K. Beville
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I outset experienced the Virtual Dementia Tour inwards 2009. I all the same retrieve my immediate reaction afterward taking the tour -- yous tin meliorate empathise how a someone living amongst dementia mightiness hold out thinking as well as feeling.
The VDT is a existent empathy builder.
Building empathy amongst a someone living amongst Alzheimer's is extremely hard fifty-fifty if yous take away keep known them all or most of your life.
In fact, inwards my persuasion buidling empathy is ane of the most hard challenges faced past times most Alzheimer's caregivers. Change does non come upwards easily to most of us; and, when Alzheimer's strikes it oft cancels out much of the existing empathy that was already inwards place.
The VDT inwards my persuasion is an essential preparation tool for those who are, or are intending, to attention professionally for persons living amongst dementia.
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I am non for sure how many of the geriatric attention managers that read on this site are certified to develop using the Virtual Dementia Tour. I know that Carole Larkin is one.
If yous are certified to develop yous tin pose your name, companionship name, metropolis as well as province inwards the comments box below this article.
I never endorse whatever production or service earlier I utilisation it, or earlier I tin perform the necessary due diligence to brand for sure it deserves an endorsement.
I tin endorse the Virtual Dementia Tour, and I have. Same for P. K. Beville.
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Scientifically Proven Sensitivity Program Provides Users amongst Immersive Experience to Gain Understanding of Alzheimer's Disease
Virtual Dementia Tour® Program Experienced past times 500,000 people inwards 17 countries
The USA Patent & Trademark Office has granted U.S. Patent No. 8,388,347 to P.K. Beville , founder as well as CEO of Atlanta-based Second Wind Dreams, for her Alzheimer's affliction as well as related dementias sensitivity preparation programme known equally the Virtual Dementia Tour®.
Experienced past times to a greater extent than than 500,000 inwards 17 countries since its creation, the Virtual Dementia Tour® programme is a scientifically proven method of edifice a greater agreement of dementia through the utilisation of patented sensory tools as well as instruction.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, award-winning geriatric specialist Beville's "Systems as well as Methods for Simulating Effects of Age-Related Cognitive or Physical Decline" provides "a scheme for allowing a user to experience a simulation of an age-related medical condition." U.S. Patent No. 8,388,347 relates to for sure components, elements as well as functions of the Virtual Dementia Tour® experience.
Thanks to the Virtual Dementia Tour® program, wellness attention professionals, identify unit of measurement caregivers, work organisation leaders, consumer advocates, outset responders as well as educators are able to experience for themselves the physical as well as mental challenges facing the 5.3 1000000 Americans who endure from Alzheimer's affliction as well as other forms of dementia. In June 2013, it volition hold out introduced to the people of the Britain as well as a fellow member of Parliament volition experience the VDT.
"The solution to Alzheimer's affliction today as well as inwards the foreseeable futurity is inwards developing a meliorate as well as to a greater extent than personal agreement of the day-to-day challenges facing those amongst the disease," said P.K. Beville , M.S., founder as well as CEO of Second Wind Dreams. "The Virtual Dementia Tour® programme is the tool that makes that agreement possible."
"America is asleep at the switch waiting for that magic cure for Alzheimer's affliction that is all the same decades away," stated Beville. "We postulate to accept stock of the hither as well as straight off as well as develop a deeper agreement of the minds of those amongst the disease.
The Virtual Dementia Tour® programme genuinely sets the criterion for creating greater awareness of Alzheimer's as well as sensitivity for those amongst dementia."
Proceeds from the sale of Virtual Dementia Tour® programme larn to back upwards Second Wind Dreams, the international nonprofit scheme recognized equally the outset inwards the field to hold out committed to changing the perception of aging through the fulfillment of dreams for elders.
Beville was assisted inwards the patent application procedure past times the Atlanta business office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. For to a greater extent than data catch www.kilpatricktownsend.com.
About Second Wind Dreams
Second Wind Dreams is an international, nonprofit scheme committed to changing the perception of aging through the fulfillment of dreams as well as educational programs that aid caregivers empathise the physical as well as mental challenges facing those amongst dementia. Founded inwards 1997 past times award-winning geriatric specialist P.K. Beville , M.S., the Atlanta-based scheme is recognized equally the outset inwards the field to focus on enhancing the lineament of life for elders as well as changing society's perception of seniors past times making dreams come upwards true. Affiliated amongst to a greater extent than than 500 elderberry attention communities across the country, Second Wind Dreams has made thousands of dreams come upwards truthful for seniors living inwards the United States, Canada, India, State of Israel as well as other countries approximately the world.
Its innovative educational program, known equally the Virtual Dementia Tour®, is a scientifically proven method of preparation designed to create sensitivity as well as awareness inwards individuals caring for those amongst dementia. For to a greater extent than data close Second Wind Dreams catch www.secondwind.org, www.Facebook.com/SecondWindDreams or follow @SecondWindDream on Twitter.
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