Person-Centered, Skilled Services Using a Montessori Approach for Persons with Dementia

Abstract

The current mandate for person-centered care throughout the health care system, and especially in the nursing home industry, requires that speech–language pathologists ensure that the services they provide to elders with dementia are skilled, person centered, and relevant to positive overall health outcomes. Guidelines developed by the Association Montessori International Advisory Board for Montessori for Aging and Dementia are one avenue toward such skilled and person-centered services. The purpose of this article is to provide clinicians with practical strategies for guiding their assessment, goal writing, and intervention plans to meet the expectations of a person-centered approach to services for elders with dementia, using the Montessori approach as a philosophical guide.

Keywords

person-centered care - dementia - Montessori approach - elders

Disclosures

Natalie Douglas' financial disclosures include consultant fees from Brush Development. She is the coauthor of one Montessori workbook published by Brush Development.

Jennifer Brush's financial disclosures include ownership of Brush Development, a consulting company that provides education in Montessori for Aging and Dementia. Jennifer Brush is the primary author of two Montessori workbooks published by Brush Development.

Michelle Bourgeois' financial disclosures include consultant fees from the Clark Senior Care Foundation and Brush Development Inc.; nonfinancial disclosures include membership on the AMI Advisory Committee on Montessori for Dementia and Aged Care.

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