Memory Care Standards
This standard gives residents an opportunity to sit on a comfortable chair/sofa and feel more dignified.
This Master Series program allows residents to continue to participate in community service projects and is held monthly in all program levels.
What is Maplewood Giving Tree?
This program is scheduled daily in the morning and encourages residents to exert physical energy purposefully.
What is Fit for Life?
Crossword Puzzles, Music/Art History, and Learning for Life are all examples of this Season of Possibility.
What is Intellectual Engagement?
This Standard ensures we are providing programs that are age appropriate and dignified.
What is All programs are adult in nature?
This standard is to ensure that programs are adult in nature and provide meaning and purpose to the residents participating.
What is Television use to be purposeful and used in and engaging manner?
A Montessori- Based Dementia Program created from the Myers Research Institute that has been created to help the participants read with ease and independence.
What is Reading for Life?
This program encourages residents to use cognitive abilities, is held daily in the morning.
What is Brain Fitness, Touch of HEART, or iN2L?
Planting a tomato plant and providing its continuous care provides this type of engagement.
This standard ensures we are offering programs to meet the activity interests of all residents.
What is Information collected on the Staying Connected from is utilized to develop calendar?
The reason for this standard is to provide a consistent and predictable routine can help maintain independence and improve function for people living with dementia.
What is Scheduled activities occur according to calendar?
This Master Series program allows residents to weigh in on real world dilemmas.
What is Ethics in Action?
This program takes residents on a virtual journey almost anywhere worldwide and can focus specifically on monthly theme locations.
What is Virtual Reality or Genius Happened Here?
This dimension of wellness included activities that are valuable for maintaining health and fostering relationships.
What is Social Engagement?
These four meetings give residents the opportunity to voice their opinions and give input relative to the operations of the Memory care neighborhood.
What are Executive Director meeting, Meeting with the Chef, Resident Council Meeting, and Activity Committee Meeting?
This standard ensures that Utensils are matching and there are at least 3 pieces of silverware; soup spoon when needed; salad fork also when needed
What is Tables are set with all needed utensils (including Knife)?
A Master Series program designed to introduce new residents to the existing residents and associates in the community.
What is Maplewood Connections?
This program encourages all residents to continue learning about new things and is required once per month on all program schedules.
What is Learning for Life?
Research shows that this type of engagement slows cognitive decline and helps maintain functional ability.
What is Physical Engagment?
This standard reinforces that Emotion-based care is the basis for program and will minimize behaviors.
What is Care associates are utilizing HEART during all interactions with the residents?
This Standard states that CDMC (Sr) will review all calendars to ensure each one reflects community events, special programs, seasonal activities, and MSL Master Series Programs. CDCM (Sr) will provide feedback as needed and will give approval to the MCD/MCC to formally submit the calendar to Connected Living
What is Monthly Calendar completed and Submitted to the Corporate Director of Memory Care and Programming (Sr) by the 15th of the month for the upcoming month. Once CDCM (Sr) gives approval, the calendar to be submitted to Connected Living by the 20th of the month.
This Master Series program is designed to enhance the engagement opportunities for residents and associates through teaching offerings from associates throughout the organization.
What is Maplewood Academy?
A presentation or hands-on creative program of the culture and times of the monthly theme.
What is Culture Connection?
These are the Six Dimensions of Wellness, otherwise known as the Seasons of Possibility.
What are Physical Engagement, Social Engagement, Purposeful Engagement, Spiritual Engagement, Intellectual Engagement, and Emotional Engagement?
This standard is To keep families informed on how their loved one is doing at MSL, Provide the monthly newsletter and calendar to keep families informed of the day to day program offerings. To provide pictures of their loved one participating in programs of interest to share their joyful moments with the families.
What is Frequent Communication with families occurring including sending calendar, newsletter, pictures, emails, and phone calls; providing positive reassuring communication (e.g. emails, phone calls, Facetime)?