Serving Residents With Dementia:

Transformative Care Strategies for Assisted Living Providers

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by Kerry C. Mills, MPA of Engaging Alzheimer’s LLC

Kerry’s most recent book, a comprehensive manual for assisted livings that care for people with dementia, is now available for purchase.

Published by HCPro, Serving Residents With Dementia sells for $95 on Amazon, but you can purchase it through Engaging Alzheimer’s LLC at a 20% discount. Order your copy now and save $19.

Serving Residents With Dementia: Transformative Care Strategies for Assisted Living Providers is a dynamic and comprehensive manual that addresses critical considerations. Written in an engaging conversational style and infused with numerous anecdotes from the author’s own international experience as a dementia care partner and pioneer, this book empowers key decision-makers across the assisted living sector with guidance, processes, and tools they need to develop a dementia care program that’s robust enough to accommodate the diverse and evolving needs of residents in all stages of disease progression.

Table of Contents:

  1. The Brain: How it works, and What Symptoms Occur When It Becomes Impaired
  2. Dementia: Where It Comes From and How We Treat It
  3. Setting the Stones: Creating a Strong Foundation for a Successful Dementia Care Program
  4. Fostering Success From the First Phone Call to the Last Day of Residence
  5. Leading Your Entire Care Team
  6. Recruiting, Retaining, and Enjoying Your Direct Care Team
  7. The Central Role of Family in the Care Team
  8. Designing Your Environment
  9. Seeing Is Believing: Earning Staff Buy-In on Culture Change Initiatives
  10. Implementing Effective Policies and Procedures
  11. Delivering Quality Dementia care in the Traditional Assisted Living Setting