How to Demonstrate Empathy Residents will often provide the most valuable information about what is going on for them through their voice and body language, rather than what they say. Using active listening skills, a group facilitator can help...
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This was written by a spouse of one of our residents. He brings his wife to the Java Music Club religiously and as you can see from his poem it seems to make his whole week! He shared it...
Many older people with Alzheimer’s dementia and behavioral symptoms can be withdrawn from chronic antipsychotic medication without detrimental effects on their behaviour. A subgroup of the international healthcare research organization the Cochrane Collaboration, recently tracked what happened when people...
Those living in long term care communities such as care homes, assisted living and retirement homes face numerous barriers to feeling a sense of inclusion and belonging. It is hard to imagine what it is like living in a...
I came across a recreation assessment form in which a resident wrote: “Please don’t throw balloons at me!” Nothing else. No favorite hobbies, no where I grew up, what I like to be called, or favorite foods. Why would...