Person-Centered Dementia Care: Seeing the Person Through "This AND"
Person-centered care is not sympathy. It is support, partnership, and making room for life.
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Why Dementia Training Belongs at the Heart of the PACE Model
How experiential education and practical care skills can strengthen dementia capability across the PACE interdisciplinary team
Person-Centered Dementia Care in Practice
Is dementia care really suffering from a lack of innovation, or are we struggling to implement what we already know?
How Sagora Senior Living Uses Dementia Live to Build Empathy and Improve Memory Care
What changes when a caregiver moves beyond learning about dementia and begins to understand what living with cognitive change might feel like?
Compassionate Touch® and CMS HOPE: A Powerful, Research-Driven Approach to Pain, Symptoms, and Psychosocial Support in Hospice Care
As CMS prepares the field for the Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE), hospice organizations nationwide are re-examining how they deliver, document, and demonstrate quality. HOPE — a comprehensive assessment and quality framework designed to replace the Hospice Item Set (HIS) — elevates key domains of care that lie at the heart of hospice philosophy. These include pain management, symptom (and behavioral) management, and psychosocial and spiritual needs.
Learn more from CMS here.
Quality of Life in Nursing Homes—What Matters Most?
Individual preferences determine if one feels they have a high or low quality of life.
How to Prevent People in Nursing Homes from Becoming Invisible?
People in care can often feel invisible.