Interventions
We gather information about general actvities (e.g., community schedule), specific activities (individual schedule), and specific individual needs of your loved one. Then we combine this information with pictures, music, and voices that are meaningful to your loved one. The result is what we call personalized interventions.
Interventions are tested for positive engagement and will be displayed on your love one‘s SimpleC Companion. Depending on how much memory and behavioral support your love one would like or needs, the interventions can:
Cue your loved one about both general and specific activities
Schedule interventions to play automatically at a specified day and time to increase participation for regularly repeating activities.
Independent living residents may prefer to only receive reminders for instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) such as taking medications.
Residents in assisted living or memory care benefit from cueing of activities of daily living (ADL) such as:
General recurring activities, for example:
- getting up in the morning, bathing
- breakfast, lunch, dinner
Specific Individual activities, for example:
- Devotions
- Activity classes
- Hair stylist appointments
Example: Pictures of breakfast will signal to individuals that it is time to eat and whet their appetite.
Provide advance notices for upcoming care events
Our personalized interventions also prepare memory care residents for upcoming care events. For example, hearing your Trusted VoiceSM that says “It is time to take a bath” helps inform your loved one in a more positive manner.
This provides a pleasant rather than distressing engagement for your loved one and makes it easier to complete daily tasks such as bathing and housekeeping.
Support individual needs
We assess your loved one’s needs for behavioral support and then create interventions that the care team can access anytime. For example, an intervention may orient an individual to time and place or calm agitation associated with dementia.
To customize our interventions we assess individuals’ characteristics such as:
- appetite
- energy level
- mood
- medication
- behavior and care needs
