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Validation therapy was developed by Naomi Feil for older people with cognitive impairments and dementia. Feil's own approach classifies individuals with cognitive impairment as having one of four stages in a continuum of dementia. These stages are: Mal orientation; Time confusion; Repetitive motion; Vegetative state
Patient advocacy, as a hospital-based practice, grew out of this patient rights movement: patient advocates (often called patient representatives) were needed to protect and enhance the rights of patients at a time when hospital stays were long and acute conditions—heart disease, stroke and cancer—contributed to the boom in hospital growth.
Geriatric care management integrates health care and psychological care with other needed services such as: housing, home care services, nutritional services, assistance with activities of daily living, socialization programs, as well as financial and legal planning (e.g. banking, trusts).
Sep. 22—One of the most heartbreaking emotional challenges Kellie Danielson had to face about her mother's severe stage Alzheimer's disease was the realization her mom could no longer recognize ...
Thanks to the dedication of Alzheimer's research advocates and bipartisan support in Congress, the NAPA Reauthorization Act (P.L. 118-92) was signed into law in October 2024.
The work of the Society is of interest to researchers in gerontology and dementia, to the arts community, to creative expression facilitators, medical doctors, formal and informal caregivers. It also engages practitioners in the field of dementia care, administrators of care facilities, policy makers, families and the community at large.