I had the privilege to talk with Lance Slatton in the All Home Care Matters podcast. I hope you’ll take time to read their post and watch the video.
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton (The Senior Care Influencer Lance A. Slatton) were honored to welcome Jill Couch, MS, OT/L as guest to the show.
About Jill Couch, MS, OT/L:
Jill’s grandmother is her inspiration; her dad was her teacher. Both passed from this life with dementia. The DAWN Method taught Jill how to get it right with her dad. Jill is an Occupational Therapist who saw a different way to help in dementia when she began learning the DAWN Method.
About Better People Care LLC:
Jill founded Better People Care in 2018 when she began experiencing how the tools of the DAWN Method were helping her provide the right kind of care for folks experiencing dementia. Now, she and her team bring help and hope for many families in Northern Colorado. In addition, we specialize in training and coaching in the DAWN Method, care management, and healthcare advocacy for people living throughout the United States.
About the DAWN Method:
Here at the Dementia & Alzheimer’s Wellbeing Network® (DAWN®), we’ve discovered something really special. We’ve found that although our clients lose some cognitive skills, they never lose all their skills. In fact, with dementia, we keep our primary thinking skills and continue to live in the present—fully able to enjoy beauty, positive emotions and companionship.
There are strengths in dementia, and both you and your loved one will benefit when you understand how to provide strength-based care. You will be able to keep your loved one home longer, with fewer conflicts, and your family will have less stress and expense.
What they believe:
We believe in preserving dignity and autonomy through aging in place for as long as possible. We do this by training families and caregivers to recognize and meet the emotional needs caused by dementia, how to support the cognitive skills their loved ones lose, and how to work with the skills they’ll keep.
The seven tools of the DAWN Method® of dementia care:
The tools of the DAWN Method of dementia care: 1. Mood management, 2. Security in Confusion, 3. Security in Care, 4. Social Success, 5. Sense of Control, 6. Sense of Value, 7. Secure Future (in flower shape)
The first three DAWN tools are techniques for caregivers to help their loved ones regain a sense of security. Feeling secure is the most basic human need; we cannot relax if we don’t feel safe.
The last four tools help caregivers enhance their loved one’s sense of contentment (“wellbeing”). When caregivers use the first three DAWN tools, their loved ones learn that they can still be safe, and become more emotionally stable. With the last four DAWN tools, caregivers are equipped to restore and enhance their loved ones’ sense of comfort in moments when discomfort looms.
The DAWN Method was founded by Judy Cornish.
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