When life meets Alzheimer's illness family, professional care is also TA dignity and happiness

Text/Chen Huitu/Interviewee provided

"Mom! "Tells the touching story of the 85 -year -old mother taking care of the 65 -year -old Alzheimer's disease daughter, and was named" Most Tears of the Year "by netizens. The film truly presented the embarrassment, helplessness, and despair of Alzheimer's patients: forgetting to pay for things, forgetting the way home, one day even the closest person ... These have re -thought our thinking, Let's focus more on cognitive diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

The scene of this film is the "Taikang House" pension community. On September 21st, the World Alzheimer's Day is coming, and the reporter entered the "Taikang House · Cantonese Garden" to explore how they created three major non -drug therapies and help Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive diseases. The person found the "direction of the home".

Convergence+professional solution to spiritual behavior tricks

A grandmother often had hallucinations, and she was unwilling to sleep on the bed. She curled up in the gap between the sofa and the bed every night; a grandfather had not taken a bath when he was sent by his family. … Cognitive disease represented by Alzheimer's disease has become a big killer that affects the health of the elderly. The increasingly increasing patients have brought huge medical and care challenges to families and society.

Nursing workers accompanied the elders to rest in the memory garden trail

In the face of this tricky case, how does caregivers take care? Peng Xiaoyuan, deputy dean of Guangzhou Taikang Yueyuan Hospital and the head of Taikang House · Yueyuan Nursing Apartment, introduced that nursing staff must first understand the characteristics and development laws of this disease in order to entertain the elderly. For example, 97%of cognitive elders will have at least one mental behavior symptoms during the disease, such as indifference, depression, anxiety, and excitement. They may suddenly be angry, curse or even beat the nursing staff without reason. Their memory, computing ability, understanding ability, language ability, behavior, etc. have declined rapidly, but many times, they will be difficult to accept because they cannot be competent, such as wearing clothes and finding the way home. Then induce various depression, anger and other emotions. Understanding the reasons behind the "abnormal" of the elderly helps the nursing staff to have strong empathy, understand their feelings, and give more love and patience during care.

Only empathy is not enough, and the support of strong strain and professional knowledge can achieve meticulous professional care. At the House of Taikang, the reporter saw a grandfather suddenly excited, shaking the chair vigorously, shouting loudly, the post -90s nurses first imitated his movements and languages ​​to "rejoicing" with him, and then sat next to him and clenched him. Tighten one hand of him, avoid face confrontation, see that he is not so excited, the caregiver will then hand over some instruments and toys to the old man to transfer his attention. In the arms of the old man, the old man's face appeared with a smile, and finally he smiled and went out to take a walk ... Let the old man get out of control and anger, to calm emotion, and then in a happy mood. Their profession is also their "magic".

Non -drug therapy to help the elders of cognitive disease find "the direction of the home"

Taikang House creates a cognitive symptom care system- "home direction" project, and uses the "people -centered" care concept to create a friendly environment, entertainment healing, characteristic catering, employee support and family members support five characteristic sections and more. Sensory stimulus therapy, music therapy and nostalgic therapy -like non -drug therapy.

Taking nostalgic therapy as an example, the Taikang House system collects the life story of the elderly, and will also perform special nostalgic activities through one -to -one or group. In addition, in the memory care area, they have created an old environment, including interactive experience "nostalgia", personalized "memory box" at the door, nostalgic layout of the room, and so on. Various and nostalgic therapy support can effectively help the elderly of cognitive diseases to evoke and consolidate long -term memory, improve a sense of familiarity, security and self -worth, and reduce and prevent the occurrence of mental behavior symptoms.

Taikang House · Guangdong Garden Nursing Apartment regularly carry out cognitive disease family association

Wang Jingjing, the head of the Memory Zone of the Cantonese Garden Nursing Apartment in Taikang House, introduced that in actual care, they often use multiple methods. Take the grandma who refused to go to bed as an example as an example. They asked their family members to send their grandmother's favorite pillows, sheets and quilts at home. The familiar odor and pattern enhanced the sense of security of grandma. They also learned from the family that grandma won a lot of awards when she was young, and she was filled with a medal and trophy that her grandmother had won in her room to create a nostalgic environment. Essence Knowing that Grandma likes music, the nursing staff often play her favorite Mozart's music and encourage her to play in the music room in person. Grandma is getting more and more relaxed, and the symptoms such as the illusion of the fantasy vision have never appeared, and soon they are willing to go to bed.

Dean Peng Xiaoyuan said: "We hope that through the scientific care, we can make the residents who are lost in memory to find the" direction of the home "and feel the warmth of the home."

When Alzheimer's disease does not mean that life is also forced to press the end key. With the love and companionship of loved ones, the escort of professional institutions can still embrace life, have dignity and happiness.

Yangcheng Evening News September 20th report

Source | Yangcheng Evening News · Yangcheng School

Editor -in -law | Zhang Hua

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