Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit for Dementia Care : CLOSEOUT ITEM
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Improve the communication, functional independence, and well-being of your residents!
As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident’s ability to express needs and desires. With its more than 300 specific recommendations for interventions and modifications, this evidence-based toolkit includes everything you need to assess and adapt environments for people with dementia on an individualized basis.
In three easy-to-follow steps the ECAT Assessment Forms help you assess activity performance, evaluate the environment to identify barriers and problems, and pinpoint interventions that will reduce typical problems encountered during routine activities of daily living.
This toolkit includes the following:
As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident’s ability to express needs and desires. With its more than 300 specific recommendations for interventions and modifications, this evidence-based toolkit includes everything you need to assess and adapt environments for people with dementia on an individualized basis.
In three easy-to-follow steps the ECAT Assessment Forms help you assess activity performance, evaluate the environment to identify barriers and problems, and pinpoint interventions that will reduce typical problems encountered during routine activities of daily living.
This toolkit includes the following:
- The ECAT Manual includes information on how limitations associated with dementia can impact communication; a step-by-step guide to completing the assessments; and cross-referenced tables outlining interventions correlated to assessment results.
- ECAT Assessment Forms require simple yes/no questions that allow quick identification of environmental barriers that are preventing your residents from participating in activities of daily living, leisure activities, or social communication in both public and private spaces.
- ECAT Card Pack This handy pack of sturdy 8 1/2 x 11 cards contains:
- 24 Sequencing Cue Cards, reusable, non-glare cards with illustrated sequencing cues for common activities of daily living;
- Gray Scale Contrast Tool for evaluating if visual aids in the environment have adequate contrast; and a
- Type Size Reading Test to determine what size of text each person needs.
- ECAT CD-ROM Provides printable PDFs of the Assessment Forms, Sequencing Cue Cards, Gray Scale Contrast Tool, and Type Size Reading Test, plus Personal Space Signs.
2012, Health Professions Press