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President and founder of Dementia Care Specialists Kim Warchol, OTR/L, has educated over 5,000 health-care professionals on a best-abilities approach to dementia evaluation, treatment, and programming. She sits on numerous committees and panels that advocate the development of standards for dementia care. She has authored a variety of dementia care articles, and she lectures nationally on dementia management and aging.


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A study of 929 nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia who were identified as dependent in decision making and not comatose found resistiveness to care, related to lack of understanding, depression, hallucinations and delusions, was strongly related to abusive behaviors. Read more »



The ability to perceive relationships between objects (visuospatial skills) may decline years before a person is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests. Read more »



There was a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune last month on the misuse of psychotropic drugs in Illinois Nursing homes. Read more »



 
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