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Gentiva Home Health and Hospice will host Virtual Dementia Tours
Matt BosterViewed: 3476
Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Aug 03 2014 12:17 PM
Gentiva Home Health and Hospice will host Virtual Dementia Tours® (VDT®) at their Dothan office location 2740 Headland Avenue Dothan, Alabama Dates and times to be announced
Dementia is reaching a crisis state in this country, and going forward, caring for this sector of the population is only going to become more urgent. In an effort to better support the needs of the community, Gentiva is bringing a new concept.
Gentiva’s Memory Care specialty is the first of its kind, reaching out to the growing number of patients, families and caregivers who suffer from the effects of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. We specialize in caring for those with dementia and we are offering virtual dementia tours to our community.
The Virtual Dementia Tour is an experience created for anyone seeking to understand the physical and mental challenges of those suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia. In short, it is a tool that gives you a form of dementia, and allows you to experience what it is like to be suffering from dementia. It is designed to let you feel and understand what your loved one might be feeling like at any point in time.
As such, it is designed to help you improve communication by giving you the experience of dementia the Virtual Dementia Tour is a scientifically proven method of building a greater understanding of dementia through the use of patented sensory tools and Instruction.
This method was created by award-winning, geriatric specialist and Founder of Second Wind Dreams, P.K. Beville M.S. The tour builds sensitivity and awareness in individuals caring for those with dementia by temporarily altering participants’ physical and sensory abilities with props and circumstances to simulate changes associated with physical as well as cognitive impairments of aging.
About Gentiva Home Health and Hospice
As America’s home health and hospice leader, the Gentiva family of companies has been bringing great
healthcare home for four decades. Our care is defined by our clinical expertise and the compassion we deliver
to 110,000 patients a day – one patient at a time.
About Second Wind Dreams
Second Wind Dreams is an international, nonprofit organization founded in 1997. This organization is changing
the perception of aging through the fulfillment of dreams for elders and educational programs including its
flagship program, The Virtual Dementia Tour®. The Atlanta-based organization has fulfilled more than 10,000
dreams with help from its sponsors: Senior Helpers, Caesars Foundation, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
and UK-based Training 2 Care.
If you or a community group, church, healthcare facility would like for Gentiva Home Health and Hospice to provide a dementia tour, contact us at 792-1100.
We will take your name and address and notify you by phone and mailing when we begin to organize our Virtual Dementia Tours.
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