Help your patients increase their length of conversation, improve thought organization and sentence structure, work on topic maintenance, and more!
Use these reminisce strips as you co-treat with other disciplines to make cognitive therapy more functional.
When patients are able to share information with you about their lives, making a personal connection, they will be more willing to participate in the activities you ask them to do in therapy. Making a patient feel comfortable with you, letting them know their feelings and their needs are the most important thing during that treatment session will go further than any therapy lingo or bribery you may throw their way.
Another way to increase attention and communication in more advanced dementia patients is through highly engaging puzzles and videos like these (Affiliate Links):
Try using them in the therapy room or Memory Care unit to spark some quality and meaningful conversation!
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