End-of-Life Namaste Care Program for People with Dementia / Edition 2

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ISBN-10:: 1938870026
ISBN-13:: 9781938870026
Pub. Date:: 05/01/2013
Publisher:: Health Professions Press

ISBN-10:: 1938870026
ISBN-13:: 9781938870026
Pub. Date:: 05/01/2013
Publisher:: Health Professions Press

End-of-Life Namaste Care Program for People with Dementia / Edition 2

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Overview

Presenting a unique program designed especially for people with advanced dementia, this guide offers simple and effective ways for care staff to provide holistic end-of-life care. With compassion, sensitivity, and creativity, the Namaste Care™ program affirms the individual spirit of each person through comforting sensory-based experiences. Evocative scents, soothing music, and gentle massage are just part of this innovative program, which can be implemented with minimal resources and training and meets regulatory guidelines for person-centered activity programming. Step-by-step advice for staffing, budgeting, operating, and marketing the program is included along with detailed information for creating a Namaste Care room or other space. Skilled nursing facilities, assisted living memory care, and hospice organizations enjoy positive outcomes from implementing Namaste Care, including improved resident quality of life, increased family involvement, and strengthened staff morale. New to this second edition: greatly expanded coverage of programming and adaptations for assisted living and hospice care more stories and vignettes to illustrate creative uses of Namaste Care and improvements in quality of life introduction of the No One Dies Alone program into Namaste Care revised and expanded discussion of dying and death to encourage greater sensitivity and understanding of this important passage for residents, their families, and staff international examples of Namaste Care programs and perspectives from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Europe

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ISBN-13:	9781938870026
Publisher:	Health Professions Press
Publication date:	05/01/2013
Edition description:	2nd ed. Large Print
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Joyce Simard, M.S.W., provides consulting services to skilled nursing centers and assisted living communities. She earned her bachelor of arts in sociology/social work at Ithaca College in New York and her masterâ??s of social work at the University of Minnesota. In addition to Namaste Care, she developed The Memory Enhancement Program (MEP), a unique program for individuals experiencing memory loss above and beyond what is normal for their age and education. Residents in nursing centers, assisted living, and independent living communities who do not need a secured Alzheimer's unit benefit from this program. An internationally recognized speaker, Joyce has given seminars, such as Understanding Alzheimerâ??s Disease, Finding Joy in the Caregiving Experience, and Staff Participation in Meaningful Activities, to families of people with dementia and health care professionals in the United States, Australia, and several cities in Asia. She also provides in-service training on a variety of subjects, including hospice, bereavement, comfort care, and activity programs for people with dementia. Joyce is known for bringing humor and a light touch to serious subjects. She teaches through stories of real experiences from her more than 20 years in health care.

About the Author ix

Foreword Ladislav Volicer, M.D., Ph.D xi

Preface xii

Acknowledgments xix

1 The Beginning 1

2 What Is Namaste Care 23

3 The Namaste Care Team 39

4 The Namaste Care Setting 59

5 The Namaste Care Day 77

6 Implementing Namaste Care 121

7 Assisted Living 143

8 Quality of Life at the End of Life 161

9 Dying and Death 205

Appendixes

A Namaste Care Nursing Supplies 238

B Namaste Care Activity Supplies 242

C Namaste Care Resources 243

D Namaste Care Activities of Daily Living Checklist 245

E Dementia Bill of Rights 247

F Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PATNAD) Scale 248

References 252

Index 257

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Helen Martin, FNP (Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Life Care Center)
Description: This book is a wonderful resource that presents an alternative for practitioners and caregivers caring for dementia patients. I had heard of the Namaste method and was glad to see a book about it. The method is very common sense and easy to implement in almost any setting. I have shared the book with one of my long term care facilities which is looking at the model to implement in its Alzheimer's disease (AD) unit and to use in employee education.
Purpose: The purpose of implementing the Namaste care program is to provide better care to our AD patients. It is important to stress, as the author does, that we not isolate our AD patients, but instead enhance the environment around them to make their lives more meaningful. This affects not just the patients, but families and caregivers as well. The objective is to explain this method of care.
Audience: This book was written for and can be used by anyone in any setting.
Features: The explanation of Namaste (honoring the spirit within) captures what this program is all about. Cost is always a factor in any setting and this book emphasizes that care can be improved at little to no cost. Creative planning and people to implement it is all that it takes. The quality of life of this population has suffered for years and alternatives for care are long overdue.
Assessment: This book provides a hands-on approach to care and its simple suggestions are priceless. The vignettes are helpful, as are the added resources in the appendix.

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". . . a convincing book that is practice-oriented, yet warm and engaging."

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"[The author] is committed and dedicated to those who can not speak for themselves … she presents an approach that every health care person should and will adopt if he or she reads this book.… this publication should be a MUST read and do by every health care facility."

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