You Enjoin Adept Cheerio As Well As Nosotros Enjoin Hello: The Montessori Method For Positive Dementia Care
“Without your sacrifice, your noble efforts, your dandy love, this globe would live a much diminished place. Your caregiving function illuminates non solely your ain life as well as the life of the individual for whom yous care; your function lights the means for all who are trying to honour their means through the globe of dementia.”
By Marie Marley
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He’s a gerontologist; she’s a sometime Montessori instructor as well as administrator.
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It was solely a thing of fourth dimension until they merged their talents as well as developed the Montessori Method for Positive dementia care.
They role the Montessori Method inward cutting-edge ways to back upward retentivity business office as well as ameliorate the character of life inward aging populations.
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Together they prepare identify unit of measurement members, professional person caregivers as well as medical staff inward the role of interventions for persons who convey dementia as well as Alzheimer’s. The Brenners role the Montessori Method every bit the foundation for their evidence-based retentivity back upward program. This plan uses the 5 senses, musculus retentivity as well as spiritual twenty-four hours of the month to keep connections for persons alongside retentivity loss.
At their numerous speaking engagements over the yesteryear few years they were e'er asked if they had a mass detailing their approach. They didn’t. So they finally realized they needed to write one. And hither it is. It was merely published inward Feb of this year.
For me, i of the most of import features of this mass is the positive mental attitude the authors conjoin almost people alongside dementia as well as their caregivers, every bit illustrated yesteryear this passage from the book:
“People alongside dementia are non the walking dead, existence inward a human relationship alongside someone who happens to convey this status is non merely i long skillful bye. We convey to honour a novel means to tell hello.”
“We convey popular off used to thinking inward purely negative price when it comes to dementia. It may live surprising, but it is truthful that at that spot is a to a greater extent than positive approach to live constitute inward caring for people who convey dementia.”The authors solid soil that oftentimes, when friends as well as identify unit of measurement listen the words “Alzheimer’s as well as dementia” they react to the tidings the same means they bargain alongside death. But the Brenners tell us that nosotros are the ones who convey to assure them that the dementia journeying is non almost death, it is almost life.
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The Brenners portion the stories of people living alongside dementia they convey encountered during their years of sense inward this field. Even to a greater extent than importantly, they depict inward exceptional the techniques as well as tools they convey developed to aid readers remain connected to the people they love.
Tom as well as Karen also give numerous illuminating examples of how they convey used their tools as well as techniques to attain specific individuals alongside dementia, fifty-fifty those others convey considered unreachable.
The lastly chapter is dedicated to positive recognition of all caregivers. They say,
“Without your sacrifice, your noble efforts, your dandy love, this globe would live a much diminished place. Your caregiving function illuminates non solely your ain life as well as the life of the individual for whom yous care; your function lights the means for all who are trying to honour their means through the globe of dementia.”This mass is a truthful inspiration to dementia caregivers everywhere. And at their presentations at i time when they’re asked if they convey a book, they tell “Yes.” And a marvelous i it is.
Karen Brenner is currently a author as well as consultant. She is a frequent on-air contributor to WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio as well as the winner of the Professional Journalists’ Peter Lisagor Excellence inward Writing Award.
Thomas Brenner is an educator as well as researcher for the Illinois Department on Aging, inward Chicago, where he instructs caregivers, instance managers, as well as medical staff inward best practices for elderberry attention as well as conducts query on encephalon fitness, Alzheimer's, as well as dementia. In 2010, he received the Good Samaritan Award from the Red Cross.
Tom as well as Karen are the founders of Brenner Pathways a consulting theatre offering Montessori-inspired encephalon fitness strategies for people living alongside Alzheimer's as well as dementia. They are regular contributors to the Alzheimer’s Reading Room as well as The Fisher Alzheimer’s Research Foundation Blog.
Marie Marley is the author of the uplifting, award-winning book, Come Back Early Today: H5N1 Memoir of Love, Alzheimer’s as well as Joy. To larn to a greater extent than almost Marie as well as to accesss her wealth of data for caregivers popular off to Come Back Early Today.
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