The Recurring Revenue Revolution: How Much, How Fast, and Know-How
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Kimberly McCartha August 2, 2013
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Table of Contents
Hope Care Partners
Supportive/Purpose
Closeness Education Acceptance Logic Oneself
Hold onto hope – each journey is individual
People• How you should be
Your Feelings• Right• Legitimate
Hold onto hope – each journey is individual
Dementia Experience• No one signs up
Care Partner PWD
Hold onto hope – each journey is individual Choices
Choices• GO on Journey or NOT
No set time Unknown things to come Alongside PWD Huge personal cost
Respected & Supported Not for everyone
Hold onto hope – each journey is individual
Choices• Overwhelming
Despair Anxiety Fear
Hold onto hope – each journey is individual
Choices• HOPE
Good times together Inner peace For support Exceptional care QOL
Hold onto hope – each journey is individual
Become care partners to weather the storm
‘I do not want to be mothered’
Become care partners to weather the storm
Instinct• Look after• Show care
Risk of removing rights Independency Control
Become care partners to weather the storm
Care Partners• Negotiate together• Harder than carer
• Looking after someone• Not for everyone
Being supportive involves deciding on your purpose together
Supporting PWD• Starts with PWD
Journey We join them Their shoes Empathy Choices Enabling to live
Being supportive involves deciding on your purpose together
• Common purpose• Express needs
PWD Partner
• Third Person Dementia
Include Postive
Being supportive involves deciding on your purpose together
• Common purpose• Express needs
PWD Partner
• Third Person Dementia
Include Postive
Closeness is what countsSensitive to lossesValue self esteem
Need reassurance of love/careCloseness needed
HeightenedTrust feeling rather
than factsCommunicate now
Learn about dementia –collect strategies
• EDUCATE• Ready for feeling• You expert of your
experience Publications a plus
• Person Centerd Represents rights Needs of care partner
Learn about dementia –collect strategies
• Focus on Person not disease Everything has meaning Connected to feelings
Accept someone as they are-embrace their reality
• Accept• PWD reality• Difficult• Learn their language
Language is feelings not facts
• Can’t fix them• Reality is real
Using logic and reason generally won’t work
“Thanks very much, that’s a great help. That will keep the bedding nice and clean”
Using logic and reason generally won’t work
= Feelings
= Thinking
= Action
Our Brains
Using logic and reason generally won’t work
= Feelings
= Action
PWD Brains
Using logic and reason generally won’t work
I feel and then I act
PWD Brains
Using logic and reason generally won’t work
Correcting• Highten mistake• Humiliate• Damage self
esteem
PWD Brains
Live in their world
Being person centered withoneself is important
People who are good at being a partner, being caring, being loving, are often not very goodat being careful to take care of themselves.
Being person centered withoneself is important
• Need time & space• Watch for stress• Receive support
Believe your well being matters too!
Start with being heartfelt as a person centered worker
Being person centered is about how you are with people. It is not just what you do