Let’s Talk About Topics in Dementia

We sat down with Rachelle Blough Kowalczyk to discuss the impact of CDP education on senior living environments.
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What are some dementia topics that you are passionate about?

Teaching with the council or in any entity programs. Enrichment qualify of life, you know. I think it’s so important to have recreation and leisure and joy and pleasure in life. One thing to depress us about America is a lot of our personhood was sort of our identity and our function that was a housemaker or if you were a career lawyer, but we’ve got to lean in and let people feel needed and useful so I, candidly I mean, like the nuts and bolts and the technical, but the creativity of getting people tethered to the why. The philosophy about person-centered-care and really being practical with with that, you know. Knowing 10 facts about the people we care for. So I’m going with person-centered care but real tips, real ways to apply it. I would say, recreation, activities, communication, and really flipping that old world behavior. You know, difficulty behaviors we know now people are having unmet needs and we can teach people how to address that.

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