dementia

5 types of dementia

Alzheimer disease

vascular dementia

dementia with Lewy bodies

Frontal-temporal lobar degeneration

Parkinson

主節點

triggers for behaviours of concern

physical triggers

pain

poor nutrition

sensory impairment

environmental triggers

too noisy

lack of lighting

change of environment

increase anxious in the strange environment

change of the direction

can't get to the right way to go in/out of the buliding

social triggers

too many instructions/question at once

not recognising /remembering people

difficulty finding the correct word

5 simple communication strategies

body languages

demonstration

be supportive:reassuring, encouraging

change environment when they get upset

be empathy &clam, let them express their feeling

give clear instruction & time for them to response