Manage Symptoms

A caregiver’s inability to manage their loved one’s symptoms, allowing them to live safely at home, can lead to an individual having to take potentially harmful sedating medications, placement in a long-term care facility, or both. Our CBS News featured treatment can help alleviate problematic issues, such as confusion, anxiety, and agitation, preventing the interventions mentioned earlier from occurring.

We help our clients by having them engage in meaningful activities, providing them with a high level of mental stimulation, an effective means of managing troublesome symptoms and slowing future cognitive decline. We spent three years working with hundreds of individuals, trialing dozens of activities to find the most stimulating. The most beneficial are activities related to:

Sensory Stimulation Therapy: This treatment uses everyday sounds, foods, and objects, among other items, to heighten one or more of the five senses to elicit positive feelings. Some sensory activities include aromatherapy, deep pressure stimulation, and fidget devices, which offer benefits such as improved memory recall, mood, and sleep.

Mental Exercise: Studies show that brain games and activities, like reading aloud and arithmetic calculation, can improve frontal function in persons with dementia and slow future decline while enhancing communication and independence. Other activities we employ include but are not limited to guided imagery, meditation, jigsaw puzzles, and mazes, all of which are designed for those with dementia.

Physical Activity: For persons with dementia, daily exercise, even low-intensity, can have significant benefits. Aside from combating age-related changes to the body, such as the loss of muscle mass and flexibility, physical activity can help improve mood and cognitive functioning. Our exercise program is specifically designed for older adults and consists of dementia-friendly activities to promote an individual’s success.