Dementia Management
Continuum provides specialized Dementia Care Management that’s designed to manage losses resulting from dementia and to provide special support to Family as losses appear. While it’s not yet possible to stop the progression of dementia, a person’s ability to function can be sustained, and the appearance of problematic behaviors can be abated without the use of drugs.
Continuum has on staff a dedicated group of attendant care managers whose mission is to assist, under the guidance of our Care Mangers, with the particular and ever-changing needs of persons afflicted with progressive dementia. One of our attendant care managers may visit a patient in his home and make sure that he has taken his medicines and is safe and comfortable until his family caregiver returns. Or a Continuum attendant care manager might go to lunch or other enjoyable outing with a patient who has no local family to visit him or her. Or our attendant care manager might assist in giving just the right amount of support to ensure that a person with early or non-progressive dementia can remain in her own home*.
Continuum’s Dementia Care Management program…
- offers ongoing consulting as the problems of a dementia change or get worse
- explains changes to family and often to the patient him/herself
- accompanies patient to physician visits to facilitate communication
- provides supportive suggestions for best care and realistic potential needs.
Our Dementia Care Management program also teaches and provides techniques to family and other caregivers for caring of the person with dementia.
And the Dementia Care Management plan includes a careful assessment and recommendations concerning the following:
- legal documents
- insurance policies
- supportive equipment and services appropriate to the individual
*NOTE: Continuum is not a Home Help agency. Our services are specific to particular behaviors or cognitive inabilities.
A brief summary description of our Dementia Care Management services:
- Provides a set of services that succeeds in reducing depressive behavior and slowing in the appearance of problematic symptoms, especially including the symptom of loss of the ability to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADL.)
- Develops a comprehensive needs assessment
- Creates a care plan that describes immediate as well as probable long term needs
- Gets dementia patients appropriately into the community with the intent of offering and providing positive mental and social stimulation
- Provides on-going support and education to families and professional caregivers
- Connects families with community resources
- Assists families to decide when placement in a facility is best, and to locate a facility that will be the best fit for the patient’s specific care and financial needs
- Facilitates Family meetings
- Conducts home or facility visits to assess progression of the dementia and need for a change in the plan of care
- Assists Families and professional caregivers to avoid or manage problem behaviors common with dementia
- Accompanies dementia patients to their physician visits to successfully communicate needs and concerns to the doctor and to communicate the physician’s suggestions for care and reasons for medication changes to the family or facility
Call us at (661) 861-8628 to learn more.