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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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