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Integrated Care. Better Outcomes. MEMORY CARE


Senior Living Executive magazine recognizes MatrixCare for its generous support and thought leadership of Argentum’s 2016 memory care programming.


 


Argentum Memory Care Roundtable highlights innovative programs such as Hearthstone Alzheimer Care’s Scripted Improv as a way to improve quality of life and promote engagement among residents with cognitive impairment.


 breaking into laughter with their peers.   also the result of a federally funded clinical study on systematic non-pharmacological engagement treatment for people experi- encing dementia. 


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are designed to give people a life worth liv-        to create the program through the Small   the understanding that we really can make    division has received more of these grants than any other organization in the country for non-pharmacological treatment for   Senior Living Executive’s on memory care and building design in the   as a way to treat people with dementia without drugs and as a program to evaluate    -   of people diagnosed as clinically depressed.   


group of older adults sits in a cir-  by citing lines and holding props


 the program led to an increased quality of      developed in collaboration with Ladder to   laddertothemoon.co.uk.  and as people living with cognitive challenges      


48 SENIOR LIVING EXECUTIVE / SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016


   theater program as an innovation that improved resident care and quality of life     therapy for depression and agitation. The program created by Hearthstone includes three story lines that senior living community program directors can use to put on a play with up to 20 people with dementia who improvise the roles. Hearthstone sells parts of the program and although it was de- veloped with the aid of professional actors to Continued on page 50


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