A.I.D., Activities and Interventions for Dementia and MR/DD P. O. Box 1363 Medina, Ohio 44258 Telephone: 330-723-8838 www.dementia-help.com 4aid@dementia-help.com Email Us

Specialized, Individualized Consulting

 

Specialized, individualized consulting is available for the evaluation of cognitive functioning, behavior management/support, activity development, placement decisions, and issues of family adjustment. Specialists are experienced in the development of positive interventions that improve quality of life. One goal of A.I.D. is to develop concepts, tools and terminology to bridge the many different needs of people with cognitive impairments. Dementia, for example, is really a cognitive disorder but it involves a number of disciplines such as psychiatry, neurology, psychology and the various fields of therapy. In the past, it was felt that little could be done to help victims with disorders that cause dementia; professionals in these fields struggled to provide for basic needs.

Today, however, research into the cognitive issues that involve dementia have revealed that it is possible to improve the quality of life for individuals with Alzheimer’s Dementia by using preserved specific cognitive factors that differ for each diagnosis. For example, in Alzheimer’s Disease, we know that Explicit Memory, (conscious recollection of information, facts, dates, items) is destroyed. Implicit Memory, however, a more automatic and procedural form of memory, is retained long into the disease progression. Therefore, Implicit Memory can be utilized to develop positive behavioral interventions to enable caregivers to continue to provide care in the home and reduce their burnout, or delay the need to place an individual in a residential facility of some sort.

Specific and Individualized Activity Development is often helpful in providing quality of life for people with cognitive impairments due to various disorders. Everyone has a preferred learning modality, or a particular sense that when employed, facilitates their best learning. Particularly rich sensory activities can then be developed for that individual to provide cognitive stimulation and engagement, even for those in the latter, more severe stages of the disorder. To contact us about private consulting, please email.

 

For more information please contact us at the following:

A.I.D., Activities and Interventions for Dementia and MR/DD
P. O. Box 1363
Medina, Ohio 44258
Telephone: 330-723-8838
www.dementia-help.com
4aid@dementia-help.com
Email Us

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