A noisy alarm or a mirage of an open pit... which would you rather scaring your grandma?
NPR : Nursing Homes Find Aides Key to Good Care
Wellspring aides are given extra training, and are encouraged to make changes without a supervisor's approval. A common nursing home practice to control wandering Alzheimer's residents is to install alarms on doors. When a resident wanders through, the alarm sounds and aides go retrieve the resident.
But nurse aides at Good Shepherd came up with a quieter, hands-off solution. At a training session, they learned that for people with dementia, a patch of black on the floor will look like an open pit.
Without seeking administration approval, the aides had janitors paint black spots near off-limit doors. It worked; residents turned back when they encountered the spots.
I don't know. Something just seems creepy about the open pits.
posted by Chloe | Thursday 19 September 2002 12:35 AM
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