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Isn’t It Time to Improve the Dementia Experience in Hospital Settings?
#DignifiedCare @QualityOfCare #HospitalCare
Lori La Bey talks with a panel of experts today about improving care for those living with dementia when in the hospital.
Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, is an Occupational Therapist with over forty-five years of clinical and academic experience. Her organizations, Positive Approach to Care® (PAC) and the Snow Approach Foundation, provide online and in-person education and products to support those living with brain change.
Polly Logan, DDS, was employed as a general dentist for...
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Lessons Learned Through a Caregiving Journey: How To Do More Than Survive
#CompassionateCare #FromBitterToBetter #SupportingCaregivers
Lori La Bey talks with Jill and Phil Pietroburgo. Jill has worked in the fields of mental health and education for 36 years and has written two children’s books. Her first book, Sometimes Grandma Calls Me Jean, honors her mother, who lived with dementia. Her second book will launch soon and is called From Your Hands To My Heart, which can be preordered. Jill also volunteers as a Community Educator for the Alzheimer’s...
Real advice on managing irritability, communicating mid-episode, and keeping relationships strong.
Bipolar irritability can signal a mood shift, which can inadvertently affect those around you — whether it’s your partner, friend, family member, coworker, store clerk, or whoever happens...
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Trigger warning: discussion of suicidal thoughts.
This World Suicide Prevention Day , I share an extract from my story in The Book Of Hope: 101 Voices in Overcoming Adversity by my friends Jonny Benjamin MBE and...
Measure your wrist just below the wrist bone, then add a style-specific allowance: +1" for charm bracelets, +½" for leather or multi-link designs, and round up for bangles. If you can’t measure at all, 7" fits most women...
Measure your wrist just below the wrist bone, then add a style-specific allowance: +1" for charm bracelets, +½" for leather or multi-link designs, and round up for bangles. If you can’t measure at all, 7" fits most women...
What happens when you’re hit with that heavy, urgent thought: “What if I ignore this symptom and it’s the one that actually gets me?” In this episode of the Health Anxiety Podcast Show, we track down one of...
Why does your gynaecologist ask about sex, marriage or fertility? Learn which personal questions may be medically relevant and why they should be asked respectfully.
Real advice on managing irritability, communicating mid-episode, and keeping relationships strong.
Bipolar irritability can signal a mood shift, which can inadvertently affect those around you — whether it’s your partner, friend, family member, coworker, store clerk, or whoever happens...
Journeying through Dementia is an Occupational Therapy evidence-based 10-week group programme for people with a new diagnosis of Dementia (Craig et al 2023). From our second Journeying through Dementia cohort, participants expressed a desire to continue meeting in...
What happens when you’re hit with that heavy, urgent thought: “What if I ignore this symptom and it’s the one that actually gets me?” In this episode of the Health Anxiety Podcast Show, we track down one of...