Cognitive Health Plans at Premier Medical Concierge
Dr. Bandeira will gently educate you about dementia, Alzheimer’s, and more.
While we can't control all of the factors contributing to cognitive decline, we can address many of them early and set realistic goals for disease management and caregiving. That's why Premier Medical Concierge offers cognitive health plans to its members.
A cognitive health plan aims to suggest personalized, behavior-based interventions that lead to the preservation of activities of daily living and decreased frustration for patients and caregivers.
Care planning enables caregivers to understand and appropriately adjust to a particular level of deficit their loved one is experiencing and focus on areas where the individual needs support, prolonging their independence.
About Personalized Goal Attainment
The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) published a study called Setting Personal Goals For Dementia Care where participants from the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care (ADC) program provided real-world feedback about goal setting for both patients and caregivers.
The study participants were required to have a diagnosis of dementia and to have a family member or friend serving as a caregiver who also was willing to participate in the study.
The JAGS study demonstrated that eighty-four percent of goals set by patients or caregivers were non-medical in nature, meaning they did not address healthcare treatments specifically.
Instead, the goals focused on
- improving the quality of life for the individual with dementia and
- mitigating caregiver strain or making caregiving as easy as possible.
In the JAGS study, some commonly chosen goals for the person with dementia included:
- Maintaining physical safety
- Continuing to live at home
- Receiving medical care related to dementia
- Avoiding hospitalization
- Maintaining mental stimulation
- Remaining physically active
In the JAGS study, some commonly chosen goals for the caregiver included:
- Managing stress
- Maintaining the caregiver’s own health
- Minimizing family conflict related to dementia caregiving
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