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Michigan Dementia Educators Network

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    • Handouts on Improving MI Practices Website for MDEN 2019
    • Caring Sheets Currently Available
    • Handouts by Shelly Weaverdyck
    • CIAP & CIIP Sections: Cognitive Impairment Assessment Protocol (CIAP) & Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol (CIIP)
    • Resources: The Brain, Cognitive Impairment, & Behavior
    • More Resources: The Brain, Cognitive Impairment, Behavior, Dementia
    • Selected Websites on Psychological and Neurological Disorders
    • Cognitive Functions and the Brain: The Healthy Brain and Cognition
    • The Healthy Brain and Cognition: Caring Sheet #1
    • Brain Changes and the Effects on Cognition: Caring Sheet #2
    • Comments about the Brain
    • Basic Messages about Cognitive Impairment
    • The Brain and Cognitive Abilities
    • Cognitive Impairment: Five Phases of Cognitive Processing
    • Three Diagnostic Questions: Suggestions for a Search for the Cause of Cognitive Impairment in an Older Adult
    • Change in Cognition Questions: Suggestions for Exploring Evidence of Cognitive Change in Mental Illness
    • Alzheimer’s Disease: A Summary of Information and Intervention Suggestions with an Emphasis on Cognition: Caring Sheet #11
    • Dementia with Lewy Bodies: A Summary of Information and Intervention Suggestions with an Emphasis on Cognition: Caring Sheet #12
    • Frontotemporal Dementia: A Summary of Information and Intervention Suggestions with an Emphasis on Cognition: Caring Sheet #13
    • Changes in Mental Illness with Dementia: Possible Changes when Someone with Mental Illness gets Dementia
    • Changes in Intellectual and Developmental Disorders with Dementia: Possible Changes when Someone with an Intellectual/Developmental Disorder gets Dementia
    • Four Factors: Cognitive Abilities and Support Strategies
    • Domains for Assessment & Intervention
    • Recognizing Cognitive Abilities: Suggestions for Recognizing Evidence of a Person’s Cognitive Impairment & Strengths
    • Assessing a Person’s Emotional Status: Suggestions of Questions to Ask about a Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Response to Acute Distress: Suggestions of Assessment Questions when Assisting Someone with Cognitive Impairment
    • Ten Questions about Behaviors: Suggestions of Questions to Ask when Consulting about Distressing Behaviors and a Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Methods & Occasions for Assessment: Suggestions of Types and Times of Assessment for Someone with Cognitive Impairment
    • Hand Dominance Criteria: Suggestions of Evidence a Person with Cognitive Impairment is Left or Right Handed
    • Features of the Environment to Assess
    • Understanding Cognitive Abilities: Questions to Ask
    • Understanding The Environment: Questions to Ask
    • Understanding Communication: Questions to Ask
    • Understanding the Task and Daily Routines: Questions to Ask
    • Four Factors and Basic Concepts for Intervention: Suggestions for Assisting Someone with Cognitive Impairment
    • Messages about Cognitive Intervention: Basic Messages to a Caregiver about a Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Task Complexity and Intervention Model for Cognitive Impairment
    • Planning an Intervention for a Difficult Behavior: Suggestions for Helping Someone with Cognitive Impairment
    • Recognizing & Responding to Needs of a Person with Distressing Behaviors or Cognitive Impairment
    • Do’s to Remember: Suggestions for Preventing and Responding to Distressing Behaviors with a Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Vision and Hearing Interventions: Suggestions for Helping Someone with Cognitive Impairment
    • Visual-Spatial Interventions: Suggestions for Helping Someone with Impairment in Visuospatial Functioning
    • Touch: Suggestions for Touching a Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Movement: Suggestions for Moving a Part of the Body of a Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Making Decisions: Suggestions for Helping a Person with Cognitive Impairment Make Decisions
    • Simple Activities: Suggestions of Activities for an Older Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Helping with Daily Tasks: Caring Sheet #14
    • Interventions for Persons with Right Hemispheric Brain Impairment: Suggestions for Helping Someone with Impairment in the Right Hemisphere of the Brain
    • Intervention Suggestions for Frontal Lobe Impairment: Caring Sheet #19
    • Frontotemporal Dementia Interventions: Suggestions for Helping Someone with Frontotemporal Dementia
    • Dementia with Lewy Bodies Interventions: Suggestions for Helping Someone with Dementia with Lewy Bodies
    • Sharing with Others: Suggestions for Sharing Information, Support, & Intervention Ideas with Caregivers about a Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Home Safety for People with Alzheimer’s Disease from NIH-NIA
    • Introduction and Instructions for the Cognitive Impairment Assessment Protocol (CIAP)
    • Cognition YN: Assessment of Cognition of a Person with Cognitive Impairment from CIAP
    • Cognition 4 Pt: Assessment of Cognition Four Point Scale Response Sheet from the Cognitive Impairment Assessment Protocol
    • Cognition 4 Pt: Assessment of Cognition Four Point Scale Response Sheet from the Cognitive Impairment Assessment Protocol
    • Environment YN: Assessment of the Environment of a Person with Cognitive Impairment from CIAP
    • Caregiver Interactions YN: Assessment of Caregiver Interactions
    • Caregiver Interactions 4 Pt: Assessment of Caregiver Interactions
    • Task & Daily Routines YN: Assessment of Task and Daily Routines of a Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Task & Daily Routines 4 Pt: Assessment of Task and Daily Routines of a Person with Cognitive Impairment
    • Cognitive Functions: Introduction and Instructions for Cognitive Functions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol (CIIP)
    • Executive Functions: Section III of Cognitive Functions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Contrast: Section I of Environment from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Patterns: Section II of Environment from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Clutter: Section III of Environment from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Cueing: Section IV of Environment from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Caregiver Interactions: Introduction and Instructions for Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Respect: Section I of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Explanation/Reassurance: Section II of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Body Language: Section III of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Approach: Section IV of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Observation: Section V of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Distraction: Section VI of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Consistency: Section VII of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Characteristics: Section VIII of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Organization: Section IX of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Prevention: Section X of Caregiver Interactions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Consistency: Section V of Task and Daily Routines from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Introduction to the Cognitive Impairment Assessment Protocol (CIAP)
    • Assessment of Cognition of a Person with Cognitive Impairment from the Cognitive Impairment Assessment Protocol
    • Assessment of the Environment of a Person with Cognitive Impairment from the Cognitive Impairment Assessment Protocol
    • Assessment of Caregiver Interactions of a Person with Cognitive Impairment from the Cognitive Impairment Assessment Protocol
    • Assessment of Task and Daily Routines of a Person with Cognitive Impairment from the Cognitive Impairment Assessment Protocol
    • Cover for the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Cognitive Interventions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Environment Interventions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Caregiver Interaction Interventions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
    • Task Interventions from the Cognitive Impairment Intervention Protocol
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