Serving Residents with Dementia: Transformative Care Strategies for Assisted Living Providers

Kerry C. Mills, MPA

Develop a dementia care program that’s robust enough to accommodate the diverse and evolving needs of residents in all stages of disease progression.

Serving Residents With Dementia: Transformative Care Strategies for Assisted Living Providers is written in an engaging conversational style and infused with numerous anecdotes from the author’s own international experience as a dementia care partner and pioneer and empowers key decision-makers across the assisted living sector with dementia care guidance, processes, and tools.

$95

This resource:

• Features a library of nearly 20 interactive forms and tools ALF providers can use to kick off and maintain key service and operational processes across their dementia care program. 
• Provides essential background on dementia and its effects on the brain—the first step in distinguishing irreversible symptoms from reversible ones and planning care accordingly.
• Educates readers on the various challenges that can arise when caring for a resident with dementia and how these events often differ from ones that occur when providing for individuals without dementia.
• Offers a number of approaches for assessing the specific care needs of residents with dementia and providing the most effective care.

These strategies reflect current best practices and incorporate key takeaways from today’s leading conversations on ALF memory care, including culture change, person-centered mentalities, and human-based interventions.

Arming ALF leaders with the guidance they need to train and retain staff members who provide quality direct dementia care, including specific service strategies and methods for supporting the families of residents.

About the Author

Kerry C. Mills, MPA, earned recognition in the field of Alzheimer's care as a regional manager for a pioneering Alzheimer's healthcare organization, where she served for eight years. Her goal, then and now, is to change the perception of dementia in the public eye. Mills has witnessed many success stories firsthand and knows that much of the despair and anguish of families can be overcome through education and training. As founder and president of Engaging Alzheimer's, LLC, she has had many opportunities to share her expertise and vision in the United States as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and China. Most recently, she has coauthored I Care: A Handbook for Care Partners of People With Dementia.

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