Kim Warchol

Read Kim Warchol’s latest entry in the Dementia Care Blog: Facilitating Best Abilities and Quality of Life, “Caring for Physically Aggressive Persons With ADRD,” containing tips on how to help an aggressive individual change clothes.

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Read Kim Warchol’s latest entry in the Dementia Care Blog: Facilitating Best Abilities and Quality of Life, “Gift Ideas for Persons With Dementia.”

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Read Kim Warchol’s latest entry in the Dementia Care Blog: Facilitating Best Abilities and Quality of Life, “Someone You Should Know: Barry Petersen,” congratulating author, journalist, and news correspondent Barry Petersen for receiving a 2011 Edward R. Morrow award for a video feature on his book, Jan’s Story.

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Read Tony Jace’s latest entry in the CPI Executive Blog, “September is World Alzheimer’s Month.” This post highlights a video created by CPI featuring Dementia Care Specialists president Kim Warchol, OTR/L, who shares a story about what can happen when we focus on an individual’s abilities, rather than the things she cannot do.

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Read Kim Warchol’s latest entry in the Dementia Care Blog: Facilitating Best Abilities and Quality of Life, “Sharing Thoughts on the Development of the National Alzheimer’s Plan,” about her recent participation in a local National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) event.

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Watch this video and learn how a non-responsive dementia patient in hospice was awakened when caregivers focused on her abilities, not her deficits.
 

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Read Kim Warchol’s latest entry in the Dementia Care Blog: Facilitating Best Abilities and Qualities of Life, “Kim Warchol’s NAPA Blog Response,” containing a letter she wrote to President Obama after hearing him speak on the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA).

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