Liberty Village offers ‘Memory Lane – Fitness for the Mind’

“Through years of analysis by the Alzheimer’s Association, they’ve been capable of create a construction specializing in individualized programming for the affected person, in an effort to assist them maximize their operate and bodily capability,” mentioned Dena Boss, advertising and marketing director for Liberty Village of Maryville. “They are utilizing the Allen Cognitive Scale, which is carried out by a licensed skilled, and it’s designed to find out the affected person’s precise degree of reminiscence impairment.

“The analysis has confirmed that this system we’re doing right here helps the residents. It’s not going to cease or stop the illness, however it might delay any new or worsening signs. We’re conserving the residents engaged and conserving their minds energetic. It additionally offers them a way of self-worth and accomplishment, which minimizes frustrations and behaviors.

“Everything is color-coded so we all know what each particular person affected person is able to doing. That helps our reminiscence care specialists to know instantly what actions or enrichment packages the affected person wants.”

The Fitness for the Mind program has been developed to uniquely concentrate on a resident’s strengths. Using these strengths, the employees at Liberty then implements personalised therapeutic packages which were specifically designed to concentrate on present reminiscence operate, permitting the employees to train the resident’s mind. 

The remedy groups will full an in-depth evaluation of every particular person to focus on his or her remaining talents. Enrichment programming will probably be supplied all through the day that’s catered to that particular person’s particular cognitive talents. These packages are designed to boost these talents in addition to present alternatives for social interactions, mental stimulation, in addition to recreation.

“We began on this program two years earlier than the pandemic, however COVID stopped the rollout for it till now,” Memory Lane Director Chaela Pollard mentioned. “Memory Lane – Fitness for the Mind is an individualized program for the residents, and it’s color-coded and individualized to maintain their minds busy. The program is way simpler for my employees to have the ability to work with every resident.”

Each resident at Memory is designated by their purposeful degree by means of a coloration code that features purple, yellow and inexperienced.

Activities and video games at Memory Lane are additionally color-coded, with a sticker on every exercise designating what ranges it’s suited to.

“The employees is aware of what coloration a resident is, and it lets them know what actions to do with every particular person and easy methods to train them to play the sport,” Pollard mentioned.

The residents at Memory Lane eat and drink utilizing purple plates and cups, which have been proven to extend urge for food by 25% and fluid consumption by 84%.

Likewise, the bathroom seats within the bogs of Memory Lane sufferers are black as an alternative of the usual white.

“All of our bathroom seats have been modified to black with a distinction wall, and with most Alzheimer’s and dementia sufferers, if every thing is all white or a lightweight coloration, all of it runs collectively and that’s why they’ll by no means determine the article (as a rest room),” Pollard mentioned.

“With a black bathroom seat and a distinction wall, it’s simple for them to determine that it’s a rest room. That will assist them scale back falls and it helps them to take care of their bathroom expertise.”

The reminiscence care specialists at Liberty Village have been supplied with rigorous coaching associated to caring for these stricken with reminiscence impairment. They can be found across the clock to make sure that all interactions are guided by evidence-based interventions that may stimulate every resident’s cognitive talents.

Specialized packages are supplied each day to boost mind energy and train the thoughts. Programs are guided by suggestions from extremely skilled professionals and are primarily based on the individualized evaluation of every resident’s distinctive degree of functioning.

Allowing every resident to take care of as a lot independence as doable is of paramount significance to the employees at Liberty Village. Focusing on that independence, Memory in Motion programming permits every particular person to do as a lot as doable on their very own, with guided assist and help the place wanted by the reminiscence care specialists. 

Memory in Motion packages options independence with on a regular basis duties akin to dressing, bathing and sustaining private hygiene. Fitness for the Mind programming additionally focuses on packages to maintain the residents strolling, consuming independently and sustaining continence for so long as doable.

The services at Memory Lane embody a reminiscence field, which is designed to stimulate residents’ recollections by means of acquainted sights and sounds.

“One factor that’s affected a lot by Alzheimer’s and dementia is the sensory perceptions,” Boss mentioned. “Our reminiscence field has cattails, which is one thing they’ll keep in mind seeing and touching. We have a sound field that appears like working water and there are flowers which might be imagined to simulate floating on the water. There are additionally dragonflies on the cattails, which is one other factor they may keep in mind.”

In addition, Liberty Village presents month-to-month assist group conferences, with the subsequent assembly slated for 1 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19 within the Memory Lane Activity Room. Pollard will lead the group.

Boss emphasised that the occasion is for the complete neighborhood and never just for individuals who have mother and father or spouses in Memory Lane.

“Loads of different folks want that assist, and we wish to ensure we’re offering that for them as nicely,” Boss mentioned. “In flip, we’re constructing a relationship with them.”

For extra info or to tour Liberty Village of Maryville-Memory Lane-Fitness for the Mind, name 618-288-3800 or go to https://libertyvillageofmaryville.com/.