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Greetings!
With this month's focus on offering choices, we are pleased to offer you a range of professional development and learning options. The Montessori Principles series continues, and we announce a number of new virtual opportunities in this newsletter. Continue reading to learn why offering choices is such an important human principle - for persons with dementia, for employees, and for all of us.
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This month’s Key Montessori Principle is
“Offer choice whenever possible”
A Montessori approach focuses on strengths and remaining abilities, and the ability to choose often remains even when many other skills have deteriorated. Being allowed to make choices for ourselves represents autonomy and freedom - qualities we must respect in anyone with or without dementia. The role of a care partner is to facilitate and support this freedom, which often leads to fewer responsive behaviors. By creating an environment that provides safe and relevant choices, we see more focus and interest in the environment.
Cameron Camp explains the importance of offering choices and how to best enable persons with dementia to make choices in this brief video:
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All activities should incorporate a choice, whether that is a choice between activities (Would you like to join this walking group, or work on this project?) or an order of events (Would you like to shower first or brush your teeth first?). Choices can be presented to groups (Would you like read this story, or this one?). |
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Upcoming Events
These events are open to the public and internal training sessions for communities and companies are also available. Reach out to vince@cen4ard.com to discuss training opportunities for your team.
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Explore why it is important to offer choice and the best way to provide more opportunities to make a choice to persons with dementia as well as care team members on March 24th at 2:00 pm EST. Register for this or any events in the series at www.monarch-pathways.com/12-principle-webinars
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Montessori Principles for Leadership Boot Camp
April 13th & 15th, 2021 1:00-4:15pm EST
Following up from the widely popular 2020 webinar, Dr. Cameron Camp and Gary Johnson will review how a Montessori-based culture can improve engagement for staff as well as residents living with dementia. Gain tools and skills to apply Montessori principles, social scaffolding, and a developmental leadership approach for greater staff satisfaction and productivity. This 2-day boot camp will conclude with a panel of industry experts addressing your challenges and questions about implementing the Montessori principles in your community. CEUs available.
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New online courses for 2021! |
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Montessori Principles for Leadership and Staff Engagement
Practical tools for managers and leaders to increase engagement in both residents and staff (6 hours)
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Determining Cause and Effective Treatment for Responsive Behavior in Persons with Dementia
Understand why responsive behaviors occur and address them with dignity and respect (2 hours)
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Montessori-Based Activities for Persons with Dementia 1 & 2
Explore activity extensions and modifications to make them fit a range of abilities and interests through these book-based courses (2 hours each)
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Administrators (NAB)
Activity Professionals (NCCAP)
Recreational Therapists (NCTRC)
Nursing Professionals (CEU Network)
Occupational Therapists (Ohio OTPTAT)
Social Workers (Nevada BESW)
Care Managers (NACCM)
Human Resource Professionals (SHRM)
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Featured Product:
ChooseMyViews® Visual Communication Tool
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Support communication and enable anyone to express choice, preference, or pain
Informed by speech science & geropsychology research, ChooseMyViews® is designed to be used by anyone that provides care for people with dementia or other cognitive deficits. It’s especially useful when the caregiver and the person do not speak the same primary language, or when there are challenges with verbal expression. Watch the demonstration video to see how it works:
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Please join us in congratulating The Birches Assisted Living in Clarendon Hills, IL, the latest Montessori Inspired Lifestyle® community to earn a SILVER LEVEL CREDENTIAL. The Birches community exemplifies a Montessori approach through purposeful programming that recognizes the importance of a meaningful life for all of us. As the first MIL community in Illinois, The Birches is bringing a better quality of life to their residents.
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We recently redesigned our directory of Credentialed Communities. Take a look at the residences that are setting the bar for person-centered care and demonstrate what is possible with a commitment to a Montessori Inspired Lifestyle® |
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Be well and take care,
Cameron Camp, Vince Antenucci, Nelly Jane Selby,
and the team at Center for Applied Research in Dementia
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The Original Montessori for Dementia Training®
It's a Human Thing®
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