RE: [tips] "Visual Cliffs" in dementia treatment

2011-01-04 Thread DeVolder Carol L
Interesting. I'm not sure I like it (the "black hole"), but it reminds me of something a former student told me about. He was working at a nursing home and the dementia patients wore electronic ankle bands. One gentleman's broke and they had to order a new one for him. Since this patient had a h

[tips] "Visual Cliffs" in dementia treatment

2011-01-04 Thread Beth Benoit
The following article stressed better ways to treat Alzheimer's patients, but I found the following particularly interesting: ...And Beatitudes [the nursing home described in the article] installed a rectangle of black carpet in front of the dementia unit’s fourth-floor elevators because resident