<p>The Best Friends approach is changing the lives of people around the world by improving the quality of life not only for clients with Alzheimer’s disease but also for the staff providing care. Authors Virginia Bell and David Troxel are recognized internationally for their innovative work helping people with dementia. Here, they present a training approach geared to help your staff achieve better outcomes and more rewarding experiences and help you retain an effective, satisfied staff. Read stories and ideas from real staff in facilities worldwide who are already implementing the Best Friends approach with their residents. Get the inspiration and working tools to transform your care culture, including hundreds of case studies illustrating successful programs, creative ideas you can use to implement change, proven advice on staff training and retention, and a training toolkit in each chapter that features learning exercises, activities, games, and resources. Help your staff make every day more enjoyable and secure for people with Alzheimer s disease and more rewarding for themselves.</p>

The Best Friends Staff: Building a Culture of Care in Alzheimer's Programs

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Virginia Bell

David Troxel

Mental Health

Health Professions Press

<p>Bring out the best in each person with dementia with these versatile, easy-to-implement Best Friends activities. A best friend knows your habits, what you like to do, and what makes you feel good. The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer’s Activities puts all of these qualities to work to help you transform the activity programming at your nursing facility, adult day center, assisted living facility, or home care setting. Staff, participants, and even family members will all benefit. With the ideas and suggestions found in this book, any member of a program’s care staff can turn the simplest interaction with a person with dementia into an activity that helps satisfy essential physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. In these inspiring pages, you will find formal and informal activities (with innumerable variations), communication and conversation tips, suggested songs and musical tie-ins, adaptations for people in the early and late stages of Alzheimer’s disease, activities for unprogrammed time (including evenings), ideas especially for men, opportunities for intergenerational exchanges, preventive measures to avoid unwanted surprises, and reminders of the spiritual benefits inherent in good activities. Planning activities for people with dementia may seem challenging, but this book shows how easy and natural it can be.</p>

The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities, Vol. 1

Tonya M. Cox

Robin Hamon

Diseases & Physical Ailments

The Best Friends Approach to Dementia Care, Second Edition

Health Professions Press, Inc.

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