Things 1 Learned From The Virtual Dementia Tour Certification Training
You only never know, until you’ve walked a mile inwards some other persons shoes. Once yous bring done that -- too therefore yous bring the data to brand your ain changes.
By Carole Larkin
I am at nowadays a CERTIFIED TRAINER of P.K. Beville’s idea changing, life changing Virtual Dementia Tour experience.
This is the close revolutionary pedagogy tool I bring always seen for caregiving for a mortal amongst Alzheimer’s or other dementia.
Once I went through the tour a few times too had conducted the wrap up/teaching session at the cease of it some other few times, I knew that I had to send this tool to all caregivers I could reach. So, I contacted P.K. too asked if I could bring together her adjacent class.
I went to Atlanta, Georgia too participated inwards her intensive trainings for facilitators too certified trainers. Now I tin prepare non solely household unit of measurement caregivers too professional person caregivers from abode wellness too abode attention companies, all forms of senior residences such every bit assisted livings, retentivity attention communities too nursing homes, but also many other professionals such every bit emergency medical technicians, firemen, policemen, doctors, nurses, social workers, too the like.
Even better, at nowadays I tin prepare them to travel trainers themselves, therefore this noesis tin spread fifty-fifty further. I experience fortunate to travel able to travel a part of this magic.
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This is the close revolutionary pedagogy tool I bring always seen for caregiving for a mortal amongst Alzheimer’s or other dementia.
Once I went through the tour a few times too had conducted the wrap up/teaching session at the cease of it some other few times, I knew that I had to send this tool to all caregivers I could reach. So, I contacted P.K. too asked if I could bring together her adjacent class.
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I went to Atlanta, Georgia too participated inwards her intensive trainings for facilitators too certified trainers. Now I tin prepare non solely household unit of measurement caregivers too professional person caregivers from abode wellness too abode attention companies, all forms of senior residences such every bit assisted livings, retentivity attention communities too nursing homes, but also many other professionals such every bit emergency medical technicians, firemen, policemen, doctors, nurses, social workers, too the like.
Even better, at nowadays I tin prepare them to travel trainers themselves, therefore this noesis tin spread fifty-fifty further. I experience fortunate to travel able to travel a part of this magic.
One of the biggest insights I gained from the preparation is that people amongst dementia (especially inwards middle stages) are not engaged inwards illogical “inappropriate behaviors” when they create things similar wander or mensuration aimlessly, shadow their caregivers to distraction, mutter to themselves, inquire the same inquiry endlessly, or whatsoever 1 of a number of other actions that drive their caregivers to distraction. What they are doing is engaging inwards “coping” mechanisms to bargain amongst their lack of noesis or direction inwards the best agency they tin at that moment.
The Virtual Dementia Tour participants are garbed upwards inwards a agency that gives them the experience of having dementia. Once garbed up, they are asked to create several unproblematic tasks. Few are able to attain fifty-fifty one-half the tasks requested of them inwards the fourth dimension allotted (plenty of fourth dimension nether ordinary circumstances). Their senses are altered; their encephalon is ready to a confused acre past times design. They are non able to physical care for or brand sense of data given to them to attain the tasks they are given to do. Then they are led to the expanse inwards which the tasks are to travel completed.
What happens then?
Perfectly salubrious people who v minutes earlier behaved “appropriately” get-go doing what nosotros telephone band “inappropriate behaviors”, automatically, all on their own!
They may wander some aimlessly, knowing that they are supposed to travel doing something, but because they couldn’t listen or couldn’t squall back what tasks they were told to do, they wandered some looking for something to do, anything to do, whether it was the business assigned to them or not.
Others may stand upwards frozen inwards the room, non knowing what to create too afraid to create anything because it mightiness travel the “wrong” matter to do. Others may encounter someone else inwards the room too get-go next them some to create whatever the other mortal is doing, figuring that the other mortal knows what they are doing, therefore it must travel the best agency to acquire things done themselves.
Remember, only v minutes agone these were fully surgical physical care for human beings, only similar yous too me!
Perfectly salubrious people who v minutes earlier behaved “appropriately” get-go doing what nosotros telephone band “inappropriate behaviors”, automatically, all on their own!
They may wander some aimlessly, knowing that they are supposed to travel doing something, but because they couldn’t listen or couldn’t squall back what tasks they were told to do, they wandered some looking for something to do, anything to do, whether it was the business assigned to them or not.
Others may stand upwards frozen inwards the room, non knowing what to create too afraid to create anything because it mightiness travel the “wrong” matter to do. Others may encounter someone else inwards the room too get-go next them some to create whatever the other mortal is doing, figuring that the other mortal knows what they are doing, therefore it must travel the best agency to acquire things done themselves.
Remember, only v minutes agone these were fully surgical physical care for human beings, only similar yous too me!
After the experience, when the participants were ungarbed, they said that what they did was their agency of “coping” amongst the province of affairs of existence assigned a business to create too existence “confused” or non knowing what to create to attain the task.
They described their feelings on existence inwards this acre using words similar angry, sad, frustrated, defeated, too fifty-fifty lonely. It dawned on me that these people were doing the best they knew how to do, whether their “coping” mechanisms worked or not, too whether their “coping” mechanisms were appropriate to getting their tasks done or not. They actually were doing everything they knew how to create to solve their problem.
Of course, the parallels to existent persons amongst dementia were straight off obvious. Those persons are “coping”, successfully or unsuccessfully amongst the disease, non using inappropriate behaviors. We, the “unimpaired” people must sympathise this to assist them acquire through their day, therefore that anger too tears tin plow to smiles too laughter. Once nosotros sympathise this, nosotros tin plow our frustration too anger into pity too encouragement for those amongst the diseases.
They described their feelings on existence inwards this acre using words similar angry, sad, frustrated, defeated, too fifty-fifty lonely. It dawned on me that these people were doing the best they knew how to do, whether their “coping” mechanisms worked or not, too whether their “coping” mechanisms were appropriate to getting their tasks done or not. They actually were doing everything they knew how to create to solve their problem.
Of course, the parallels to existent persons amongst dementia were straight off obvious. Those persons are “coping”, successfully or unsuccessfully amongst the disease, non using inappropriate behaviors. We, the “unimpaired” people must sympathise this to assist them acquire through their day, therefore that anger too tears tin plow to smiles too laughter. Once nosotros sympathise this, nosotros tin plow our frustration too anger into pity too encouragement for those amongst the diseases.
You only never know, until you’ve walked a mile inwards some other man’s shoes. Once yous bring done that -- too therefore yous bring the data to brand your ain changes.
Carole Larkin MA,CMC,CAEd,QDCS,EICS,
is a Geriatric Care Manager who specializes inwards helping families amongst Alzheimer’s too related dementias issues. She also trains caregivers inwards abode attention companies, assisted livings, retentivity attention communities, too nursing homes inwards dementia specific techniques for best attention of dementia sufferers. More Insight too Advice from the
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