Hello everyone, Many of you are working on integrating more person-centered approaches into your care plans, and looking for ways that GNAs and other staff can easily access information about the social histories and preferences of residents, which is critical information when caring for people who have dementia. Those “golden nuggets” of information can help […]
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Create a Plan & Evaluate It–The Final Steps of DICE
Hello everyone, This week we’ll finish discussing the four steps of DICE. We hope you had a chance to discuss the “Describe” and “Investigate” parts with your staff, and are finding the process helpful as you work to assess and manage behaviors of your residents with dementia. The “C” in DICE stands for “Create a […]
Person-centered Care Plans
Hello everyone, We have spent much time discussing care plans, and how to make them person-centered so that they can effectively guide care and help caregivers address challenging behaviors of residents. We know that many of you use electronic care plans that provide “pre-made” interventions to click off. This can be helpful, but be sure […]
Creating Person-centered Care Plans
Hello everyone, For those of you who were able to join us for Thursday’s webinar on Creating Effective Care Plans, thank you! Below is a recording of the presentation (with the slides working this time!) and the slides are also attached if you’d like to print them. The recording is less than 25 minutes long, […]
Announcing our Free Webinar: Creating Effective Person-Centered Care Plans
Hello everyone, It’s a fairly universal refrain echoed throughout long term care communities across the land: “We can’t stand care plans!” We’ve decided to address this issue head on (misery loves company, right?) and offer a free webinar on August 30th at 11:00 a.m. that will focus on ways to create more practical, effective care plans. […]
Care plan snapshots: Making care plans useful
Developing and updating care plans to ensure they include the required information takes a lot of staff time and attention. Unfortunately, they don’t usually live up to their potential for day to day usefulness and practicality. To help address this, we’ve developed a Care Plan Snapshot…a “Readers Digest” version of a care plan that highlights […]