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| Center: Melissa Weidman, retentiveness plan coordinator at Belmont Village, is alongside MD Robert Marin, Jeanette Alexander, Odette Holcomb, together with Valinda Costabell during a Circle of Friends grouping session. Photo past times Melissa Donald |
Today's Transitions is recognizing local services together with communities whose innovative ideas are improving the lineament of life for seniors together with caregivers. Read virtually ane of our iv Today's Transitions Innovation Award winners who won inward the Innovative Healthcare Services category.
WINNER: Belmont Village Senior Living
Innovation: Circle of Friends, focusing on mental fitness together with physical activeness for vii days a calendar week for those alongside dementia.
Type: Alzheimer’s Care
Size: 110 residentsCircle of Friends is a plan developed at Belmont Village Senior Living to assistance trim apathy inward people alongside mild to moderate dementia. Beverly Sanborn, LCSW, MSW gerontologist together with vice president of plan evolution at Belmont Village Senior Living, says the plan builds cognitive reserve, which appears to delay symptoms. “You bring extra capacity available inward your brain. This is called cognitive reserve. If yous educate the extra capacity, according to researchers, yous could lose encephalon cells, simply your encephalon could all the same business office longer,” she says. The benefit, Sanborn says, is residents instruct to a greater extent than engaged alongside their peers together with experience valued. “The plan breathes life dorsum into the residents. They volition come upwards to the grouping on their own. The grouping is their therapy together with they honey it,” Sanborn says. Belmont Village Senior Living hopes to contain trip the low-cal fantastic toe together with music into the plan inward the future. Sanborn besides says she would similar for their Circle of Friends model to move replicated inward other facilities.
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