Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care (without meters)

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Jennifer Brush Margaret Calkins

Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care

Name: Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care
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ISBN: 9781932529845

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Jennifer Brush, Margaret Calkins, Carrie Bruce , Jon Sanford

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Health Professions Press,U.S.
15 February 2012

Care of the elderly; Geriatric medicine; Geriatric nursing

As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's ability to express needs and desires. But how do you recognise what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life? The Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit (ECAT) for Dementia Care is your answer. This evidence-based toolkit includes the tools you need to assess, intervene, and modify on an individualised basis to ensure the quality of life for people with dementia. Use the validated Assessment Forms, and in three easy-to-follow steps you will be able to assess activity performance with quick yes/no questions; evaluate the environment to identify barriers and problems; and pinpoint individualised recommendations for intervention.

ECAT's developers are researchers and experienced clinicians who have made sure that ECAT integrates effortlessly into evaluation and treatment sessions; helps keep up case load demands with creative solutions; satisfies regulatory requirements; leads to straightforward functional therapeutic interventions; and identifies low-cost, person-centred environmental modifications.

ECAT for Dementia Care has more than 300 specific recommendations for interventions and modifications that will reduce typical problems encountered during routine activities of daily living for people with dementia. With the ECAT's functionally based assessment and intervention system, you will be fully equipped with solutions.

Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care (ECAT) - Without Metres contains 100 pp paperback Manual, Assessment Forms, Card Pack (Gray Scale Contrast Tool, Type Size Reading Test), and CD-ROM (of reproducible forms and cards).

By: Jennifer Brush, Margaret Calkins, Carrie Bruce, Jon Sanford
Imprint: Health Professions Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 885g
ISBN: 9781932529845
ISBN 10: 1932529845
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 15 February 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Mixed media product
Publisher's Status: Active

Margaret P. Calkins, Ph.D., is President of I.D.E.A.S. Inc. (Innovative Designs in Environments for an Aging Society), a consultation, education, and research firm dedicated to exploring the therapeutic potential of the environmenta social and organizational as well as physicala particularly as it relates to older adults who are frail and impaired. She is also Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Institute on Aging and Environmental at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Calkins holds degrees in both psychology and architecture. A member of several national organizations and panels that focus on issues of care for older adults with cognitive impairment, she speaks frequently at conferences nationally and internationally. She has published extensively, and her book Design for Dementia: Planning Environments for the Elderly and the Confused (National Health Publication, 1998) was the first comprehensive design guide for special care units for people with dementia. Dr. Calkins is Director and a founding member of SAGE (Society for the Advancement of Gerontological Environments), and has been a juror for numerous design competitions

Reviews for Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care (without meters)

A unique resource for health professionals who work with individuals with dementia. It combines content information, assessment tools, and practical tips and strategies in a format that is engaging and easy to read. Everyone from beginning clinicians to seasoned professionals will find this manual invaluable in managing patients with dementia and maximizing their functioning in everyday life. --Dr. Lyn Turkstra, Associate Professor Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison (04/14/2014) [Here are] the long overdue tools needed by speech-language pathologists to determine the appropriate environmental cues for their clients with dementia to maintain a quality life in the nursing home. Thank you for this excellent resource. --Michelle Bourgeois, Ph.D., Professor Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University (04/14/2014) This toolkit is a must have, foundational resource for personalizing the environment while cultivating the possibilities that exist for human growth and meaningful relationships in dementia care settings.--Heidi Gil, Senior Director of Continuing Care Planetree (04/14/2014)