Person centered dementia activities reduce agitation in those with dementia

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NEW YORK --  -- Both person-centred care and dementia-care mapping reduce agitation in people with dementia in residential care. In addition, person-centred approaches can be taught quickly and should be introduced as standard practice in residential care homes, according to a study released early online and appearing in the April issue of The Lancet Neurology.

Two individually tailored behavioural interventions already used widely in clinical practice, person-centred care and dementia-care mapping, have been shown to improve outcomes for people with dementia, but the evidence is mainly descriptive and observational.

To provide further evidence, Lynn Chenoweth, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and colleagues conducted the Caring for Aged Dementia Care Resident Study (CADRES) to examine the effectiveness of these interventions and whether they could improve quality of life, decrease need-driven dementia-compromised behaviours, or reduce the use of psychotropic drugs and rates of accidents and injuries.

The study included 15 residential care sites in Sydney involving 289 residents with dementia aged 60 years or older. Patients were randomly assigned to person-centred care, dementia-care mapping, or usual care,

Carers received training and support in the relevant intervention or continued usual care. The Cohen-Mansfield agitation inventory (CMAI) was used to measure 29 behaviours of agitation including biting, scratching, and hiding things. Patients were assessed before the intervention, after 4 months of the intervention, and then at 4 months' follow-up.

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Songs about hair

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These songs are related to April's Activity Director E-magazine article

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"Bangs" -They Might Be Giants; "Bald" - The Darkness; "Cut My Hair" - The Who ; "Cut Your Hair" - Pavement ;"Devil's Haircut" - Beck ; "Devilock" - The Misfits ; "Five Colours In Her Hair - McFly ; "Fixing Her Hair" - Ani Difranco ; "Get a Haircut" - George Thorogood ;

"Hair" - Hair (musical) ; "Hair"-The Early November ; "Hair" - PJ Harvey ; "Haircut" - Kevin Devine ; "Haircut Economics" - Hot Hot Heat ; "I'm So Bald" - Mr. Mason ; "I Am Not My Hair" - India.Arie ; "I Think I'm Going Bald" - Rush ; "I Won't Cut My Hair"- D-A-D ; "Le Frisur (entire album)" - Die Ärzte ; "Lend Me Your Comb" - The Beatles ; "Long-Haired Child" - Devendra Banhart ; "Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)" - Desaparecidos ; "More Than a Haircut" - The Waifs ; "Pull My Hair" - Bright Eyes ; "Pull My Hair" - Ying Yang Twins ; "Sampson" - Regina Spektor; "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie ; "Screaming Infidelities"- Dashboard Confessional ;

"The girl I love she got long wavy black hair" - Led Zeppelin ; "Torra Fy Ngwallt N Hir" - Super Furry Animals ; "Who Found Who's Hair in Who's Bed? - Owen ; "You're Not You" - The Good Life ; "Suicide Blonde" by INXS ; "Short Haired Woman - Lightning Hopkins ; "Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine - Johnny Cash and The Carter Family ; "He Took A White Rose from Her Hair - The Carter Family ; "Long Blonde Hair - The Meteors ; "Ain't Got No Hair - Professor Longhair ; "Black Is the Color Of My True Love's Hair - Nina Simone ; "Dark Hair'd Rider - Heavy Trash

Words containing hair

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armchairs
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chair
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chairing
chairlift
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chairman
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chairmen
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chairs
chairwoman
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cochairwoman
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highchair
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longhaired
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maidenhair
maidenhairs
mohair
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pushchair
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shairn
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shorthaired
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unhairing
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wirehaired
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W. C. Fields day

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Order W C Fields movies


W C Fields Day is April 26


Here is some info on W C Fields

(born Jan. 29, 1880, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.died Dec. 25, 1946, Pasadena, Calif.) U.S. actor and screenwriter. He was a vaudeville headliner as a juggler and appeared for seven seasons (191521) in the Ziegfeld Follies. His starring role in the stage hit Poppy (1923) brought him to Hollywood for its film adaptation, Sally of the Sawdust (1925). He emerged as a top film comedian only after the advent of sound pictures, when audiences could hear his distinctive raspy voice. His screen personalityan unlovable but hilarious con man, braggart, misanthrope, and hater of children and dogswas largely his own. Fields wrote and improvised the action for most of his films, which include comedies such as You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), My Little Chickadee (1940), The Bank Dick (1940), and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941). His only serious role was Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield (1935).

For more information on W.C. Fields, visit Britannica.com.


Here are some W C Fields quotes


Brainy Quote
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. Fields


A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. Fields


Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
W. C. Fields


Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
W. C. Fields


All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
W. C. Fields


Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields


Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. Fields


Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
W. C. Fields


Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
W. C. Fields


Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

Earth Day Ideas

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Earth Day Poem
All Things Beautiful
by C.F. Alexander

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful -
The Lord God made them all.

Each little flower that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colors,
He made their tiny wings.

The purple-headed mountain,
The river, running by,
The morning, and the sunset
That lighteth up the sky.

The tall trees in the greenwood,
The pleasant summer sun,
The ripe fruits in the garden -
He made them, every one.

He gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell
How great is God Almighty,
Who hath made all things well.

Earth Day History

Earth Day was first suggested by John McDonnell (from the United States) in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference on the Environment. The United Nations began an Earth Day celebration on the March Equinox and continued this celebration every year since.

Responding to global warming and other environmental degradation, Gaylord Nelson (a Wisconsin Senator) called for an environmental teach-in to be held on April 22, 1970. This Earth Day involved over 2000 colleges and universities and roughly 10,000 primary and secondary schools. The main purpose of the day was to promote environment awareness and reform.

Earth Day is still celebrated on 2 days - the March Equinox and April 22nd. The April date usually involves more schools. In fact, Earth Week has evolved from this precious day allowing students, teachers and parents to have more time to learn about environmental awareness.

Earth day is intended for all of us to recognize how we influence our limited resources from our planet. There are often activities, campaigns and events scheduled on this day to promote awareness of Earth issues

Easy Patriot's Day Art

A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror

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Easy patriotic art for those with dementia

One in particular one that I like is a wall hanging

You will need:
1/2 half sheet of blue construction paper
red and white crepe paper streamers
glue or tape

Give each participant or team, 1/2 sheet of blue construction paper
Also give them about 8 inches of red and 6 inches of white crepe paper strips.
Have them cut or rip them into approximately 2 inch pieces so they have 7 pieces of about the same size
Have them glue or tape the crepe paper to the blue construction paper on the horizontal edge, alternating colors with 4 red strips and 3 white strips
The side they glue the strips to, is the back
Let the glue dry
This is a good time to sing some patriotic songs or play patriotic trivia

When they are almost dry or dry,decorate the front with star sticker, white stickers, or you can have them glue a smaller sign on the front that says
Happy Patriot's Day or they can glue a picture of Paul Revere on the front

They can put a ribbon loosely across the top so they can display their hanging

Patriot’s Day activities for those with dementia

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When you are discussing Patriot’s Day or any day for that matter, if the questions you ask are too hard then give the person with dementia a choice of two possible answers

Or you can say:I think it is……..

Or do not ask questions. Just make a statement with the last word or two left out. See if the person with dementia spontaneously says something to complete the phrase.

You can also play the sensory matching game adding some patriotic items like small flags or items that are red, white and blue.

What about reading part of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. You certainly could have a side discussion about Boston, the Revolutionary War or horses.

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Paul Revere's Ride (part 2)

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Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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part 2


Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse's side,
Now he gazed at the landscape far and near,
Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry tower of the Old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns.


A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,
Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.


It was twelve by the village clock
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer's dog,
And felt the damp of the river fog,
That rises after the sun goes down.


It was one by the village clock,
When he galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he passed,
And the meeting-house windows, black and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.


It was two by the village clock,
When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadow brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket ball.


You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled,---
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
>From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.


So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,---
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere

Paul Revere's Ride

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Patriot's Day will be here before you know it.

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Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."

Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.

Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street
Wanders and watches, with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.

Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,
By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade,--
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town
And the moonlight flowing over all.

Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, "All is well!"
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,--
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide like a bridge of boats.
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