PHOENIX: Dementia care providers are deeply divided over care delivery methodologies.
Existing seniors housing providers are attempting to reinforce their hegemony in the sector by either ramping up development of stand-alone memory care models, expanding existing facilities or building new ones to add memory care to existing senior housing communities.
Others are choosing to ape the Dutch Retro Community (Hogeway), but are all caught up in a care timewarp. The care models are changing rapidly and most providers, despite their best intentions are the “institutionalisers” of the 21st century, ruling via restraint and chemical coshing.
Despite the existence of enlightened providers, the vast majority of dementia minders rely on four walls and locked doors.
Here are 10 views and/or methodologies:
3. Memory care specialists
We will begin to see a greater focus on formalized dementia education and specialization for professionals and especially professional caregivers predicts Global Award winner Senior Star.
This will be driven by a variety of factors, including rising consumer expectations and tighter regulations governing memory care.
These credentials might also be a natural outgrowth as more health care professionals are voluntarily choosing to focus on memory care than in the past…