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Overcoming social isolation: A dementia‐ friendly guide to adapt during a global pandemic
Author(s) -
Tokarczuk Pam
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1002/alz.057902
Subject(s) - dementia , isolation (microbiology) , pandemic , social isolation , psychology , covid-19 , public relations , cognition , political science , medicine , psychotherapist , psychiatry , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Background The pandemic left millions of families with the unsustainable burden of tending to their loved ones’ cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing. Without the tools, training or expertise, they simply cannot fulfill this responsibility on their own. Dementia care experts, despite the heavy regulations placed on them, offer these families their only true window of hope. Learn how to flip the script during these harrowing times. We will examine how care providers can help families overcome these devastating hardships by giving them and their loved ones the tools they need to stay connected.