The Unexpected Benefits of Client-Centered Care: Pain Reduction, Skin Integrity and Reduced Falls The breakdown to great outcomes seems to be with the need for more collaboration and person-centered care. This session will share ways to delegate responsibility first with the client, and then with the health care team to give a comprehensive person-centered approach that brings benefits that are not necessarily gained when "just checking a box." Approaches to pain management, skin health, and fall reduction will be updated and newer strategies will be reviewed. Staff and client education ideas will be shared. Spreading the work, sharing the knowledge, and following the plan will improve outcomes and satisfaction.
Kari Brizendine, a physical therapist, is a graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia. An Education Specialist for Select Rehab, one of our nation’s largest long-term care rehab providers, Kari has spent more than 39 years working with the geriatric population in a multitude of clinical settings where she has been responsible for patient care, clinical programming, education, and staff development. Her most recent interest has been working with Artificial Intelligence as it relates to fall prevention and reduction. She is a Certified Wound Specialist through the American Board of Wound Management, a Certified Dementia Practitioner and Trainer through the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners, a Certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional and she is LSVT Big Certified. Her predominant interest has been in serving those with dementia, their caregivers, health care providers and families, with the message that each person with dementia continues to have a life that matters, and that quality is possible if we all join that person using his or her personal interests, residual skills and memories in what she calls “My Way”. She is the co-author of My Past is Now My Future: A Practical Guide to Dementia Possible Care and author of Though You Do Not Know My Name I Know You Love Me Just the Same. Register Now |
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