Yangzi Evening News Network December 30 news (reporter Dong Wanyu correspondent Yuan Gang) on the afternoon of the 29th, the Nanjing Social Welfare Service Association and the person in charge of Nanjing You'an Hospital came to the Gulou District Yifa Red Sun Nursing Home to guide the "dementia elderly area" set up here to put forward normative opinions. This also indicates the start of the pilot work of the dementia zone for the elderly institution jointly created by the Nanjing Pension Industry Association and the special hospital for the mentally ill in difficulty.
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Elderly dementia (scientific name "Alzheimer's disease"), typically starting from memory impairment. It is a progressive cognitive impairment due to brain injury or disease, and this degradation is much larger than the progression of normal aging. Specific manifestations are memory decline, distraction, loss or weakness of perception, flat emotional fluctuations, language ability and thinking ability to a certain extent.
The two sides signed a cooperation agreement in the dementia area of the nursing home. In the future, under the guidance of the cooperation between the two sides, such a special area will continue to be promoted in the Nanjing Jianye District Social Welfare Institute, the Yuhuatai District Ruihaibo Elderly Rehabilitation Center, and the Gulou District Yifa Red Sun Nursing Home, as the first batch of cooperative pilot units of the Municipal Social Welfare Service Association that "dominates" the city's pension institutions.
On the afternoon of the 29th, the two sides chose to go to the Gulou District Red Day Nursing Home "Dementia Elderly Area" to see the scene, the association and You'an Hospital conducted a series of discussions and studies on the clinical and daily treatment of dementia in the elderly, focusing on the course of dementia, the symptoms of dementia, the behavioral characteristics of the elderly with dementia, the physiological and psychological conditions of the elderly with dementia, how to communicate with the elderly with dementia, how to take care of the life and living of the elderly with dementia, etc.
Guide the outdoor sports facilities in the special area for the elderly with dementia in the nursing home prone to red days in Gulou District
The reporter learned from the interview that the needs of the elderly with dementia living in institutions mainly include four aspects: one is support and safety; the second is privacy and personality; the third is social and emotional; the fourth is stimulation and activities.
Yi Jie, president of the Nanjing Social Welfare Service Association, introduced that before accepting the elderly with dementia, the institution should have a more comprehensive plan, first of all, a perfect admission assessment, followed by a treatment plan after admission, and at the same time to meet the safety needs of the elderly for the new environment and perfect facilities and equipment.
"The elderly with dementia need our care and affection, we need more careful and patient care, and we need a set of perfect facilities and equipment." Ms. Gong Ronglan, president of Nanjing You'an Hospital (Nanjing Qinglongshan Psychiatric Hospital), introduced that the treatment of the elderly with dementia is first of all the homeopathic method, that is, to follow the patient's words and ideas to cope with and deal with, try not to correct him or argue; then there is the diversion method, the dementia patient's brain degeneration, memory is short, the words said and done are forgotten in a blink of an eye, the caregiver may wish to make good use of this, with the patient's interest in things, divert his attachment to certain things; turning method, taking care of the elderly with dementia requires patience and more creativity. If one method is useless, it is necessary to change the other, and in the process of continuous failure and attempt, we will find a suitable care method for the individual.
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