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Dementia Reality™ is an innovative experiential caregiver training program.

It uses virtual reality technology to build empathy and understanding through an immersive caregiving experience. Dementia Reality utilizes both a caregiver’s and first-person perspective of a person living with dementia to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to provide excellent person-centered care and improve outcomes.

Each role specific training module is 1 hour long and includes worksheets and handouts to support the curriculum outside the classroom. Module-specific skills and learning objectives.

ADLS

Module 1: Activities of Daily Living Across all Levels of Care (ADLs)  

Skills-focus on understanding and integrating personhood and communication skills into an intentional and supportive approach to care

This module focuses on the following skills:

  • Waking up, toileting, and toothbrushing with a supportive approach
  • Safety
  • Understanding changes in visual and auditory processing
  • Understanding how cognitive changes affect communication; using communication strategies to enhance care
Challenges

Module 2: Challenges in Activities of Daily Living: 

 Skills-focus on managing challenging behaviors while providing ADL care

This module focuses on the following skills:

  • shaving, showering, and dressing with an intentional and supportive approach
  • managing behaviors using an intentional and supportive approach
  • meeting a person where they are at; hallucinations and delusions
  • redirection
Behaviours

Module 3: Changes in Behavior

 Skills- focus on understanding behaviors, behavior management, and resolution

This module focuses on the following skills:

  • Safety
  • Triage; responding appropriately to behaviors with an intentional and supportive approach 
  • Addressing predictive behaviors 
  • redirection
  • Understanding cognitive changes; hallucinations and delusions
Dining

Module 4: Direct Service Workers: Dining Services

 Skills- focus on communication and approach, cognitive changes, and their impact on dining room behavior

This module focuses on the following skills:

  • triage (working as a team)
  • approach: visual and auditory fields
  • communication: understanding cognitive changes
  • safety
Activities

Module 5: Direct Service Workers: Life Enrichment and Activities Staff

Skills- focus on appropriate engagement, communication, and re-direction

This module focuses on the following skills:

  • communication ; verbal and non-verbal
  • identifying early signs of agitation
  • redirecting using knowledge of personhood
  • appropriate engagement; meaningful activities