Describe in detail how you would motivate your client to join group activities and encourage active participation.
Module 04 Discussion – Activities for the Older Adult with Dementia
After review of this module’s resources, describe two (2) activities that you, as the nurse in a long-term care facility, would implement in one day for your client.
Your client is between the ages of 80 to 90 years old, and has early dementia (stage 1). It is your choice of how disabled, physically, your client is. Is he/she mobile without assistive devices or in need of assistive devices, such as a cane, walker or wheelchair, etc.?
Describe in detail how you would motivate your client to join group activities and encourage active participation.
You can include interdisciplinary team members to help, if needed, and explain what roles they would play.
The activities can range from very generic and simplistic to more complex. This will depend on your clients’ abilities.
Describe how long each activity will last and details of how each activity will be played out by the client.
You may include pictures or a hyperlink to a video that you think portrays your activities.
Hypothetically, think as if your family member has dementia, lives in a long-term care facility, and what you hope the nursing staff would have your loved one involved in for fun in a day’s time.
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