168 Hour Caregiving Work Week

As our client or loved one's dementia progresses, it can become increasingly difficult to engage them or find non-drug interventions to use to calm them down when a behavior occurs. With over 300 ideas and examples, the newest book from the 168 Hour Caregiving Work Week Series - Activity and Behavior Interventions for Low Functioning Individuals offers tips and insights which can help you. This book is designed as a quick reference guide of ideas to engage the one you care for. Throw away any pre-conceived notions you and others may have on how something should be done. There is no right or wrong way when it comes to activities. There is only what works for you and your client. With decades of combined experience, we have put together this simple tool to help every caregiver and can be used with for the following: 1. Alzheimer's 2. Lewy Body Dementia 3. Frontal Lobe Dementia 4. Vascular Dementia 5. Parkinson's 6. Traumatic Brain Injury 7. Huntington's Disease 8. Stroke Here are some of the the activity and intervention topics covered in this book: 1. Music Activities 2. Baby Doll Nurture Program 3. Pet and Animal Therapy 4. Spiritual Activities 5. Computer Game Activities 6. Recreation and Outdoor Activities 7. Yelling and Screaming Behaviors 8. Time and Place Orientation Behaviors 9. Poor Judgement Behaviors 10. Inappropriate Sexual Expression Behaviors These bullet point ideas are designed to allow you to start with a simple, proven idea and then use your own skills to modify the non-drug activity to use to either engage or intervene in a behavior.