Blog: New Approaches to Dementia Caregiving Bring Results
The Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) has published a blog, "New Approaches to Dementia Caregiving Bring Results."
Best Practice Caregiving is a free online database that helps health care and social service organizations identify, compare and adopt best-fit programs for their clientele and community. It contains details on over 40 vetted, proven dementia caregiving programs, including the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care (UCLA ADC) Program.
The blog describes an intervention suggested by David Reuben, MD, Director of the UCLA ADC program, for Pauline, a program participant. Dr. Reuben had been searching for alternative therapies after Pauline experienced unwanted side effects from a common drug intervention. "The cat instinctively, and I’m not kidding you, knows my mother and her needs," Ellen, Pauline's daughter, said, noting how Sasha provides extra comfort and attention to her mother at just the right times, to the extent that Pauline no longer needs the medications.
To read the blog, click here.
To go to Best Practice Caregiving, click here.
To go to the UCLA ADC website, click here.
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