Personalizing Environment For People With Dementia — Epoch Elder Care
Personalizing Rooms For People With Dementia — written by Chinchu is a must-read if one wants to understand the concept behind customized settings in the room of a resident with dementia. The blog covers three broader aspects of looking into this, which are later elaborated under several sub-headings.
Persons with dementia (PwD) prefer to live in their own world, their own space. It’s the responsibility of the caregivers to enter the wrap around them and fix all the glitches and confusions surrounding them.
Personalizing their environment adds to one of the many ways of doing such.
Maximizing confusion to maximize
- Orientation
- Procuring safety and security
- Promoting independence in activities of daily living (ADLs)
are the three broad aspects of personalizing a room for a person with dementia.
“As caregivers, we can design environments for them that help maintains their sense of control and personal dignity. In order to promote all of the functional skills and abilities that remain, importance needs to be given to what the person can still do, rather than what they can no longer do, and then design their environment in such a way that supports their maximum independence.
We, at Epoch Elder Care, consider this as one of the major aspects in caring for a person with dementia. “, says Chinchu Joseph, Consultant Trainer, Epoch Elder Care.
