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Managing Other Medical Conditions When the Person Has
Dementia
Learning How to Let Go
Rather Than Give Up
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Terms You Will NEED to Know
• Advanced directives• Living Will• DNR orders• Durable HC-POA• Palliative care• Hospice care• Comfort care
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Now for the GEMS…
DiamondsEmeraldsAmbersRubiesPearls
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Diamonds
Still ClearSharp - Can Cut
Hard - Rigid - InflexibleMany Facets
Can Really Shine
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Diamonds• Know Who’s in Charge – Respect Authority• Can do OLD habits & routines • Become more territorial OR less aware of
boundaries• Like the familiar – FIGHT CHANGE• Can pull it together to make you look bad• Know how to push your buttons• Want to keep roles the same• Tell the same stories ask the same ?s
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Emeralds
Changing colorNot as Clear or Sharp - Vague
Good to Go – Need to ‘DO’Flaws are Hidden
Time Traveling
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Emeralds• Think they are FINE• Get emotional quickly• Make mistakes – don’t realize it• Do over and over OR Skip completely• Ask – “What? Where? When?”• Like choices• Get lost in past life, past places, past roles• Need help, DON’T know it or like it!
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Ambers
Amber AlertCaution!
Caught in a momentAll about Sensation
Explorers
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Ambers
• Get into stuff• Fiddle, mess, touch, taste, dig, tear, fold…..• Move toward action and noise OR away• Sensory tolerance• Sensory need• Mouth, fingers, feet, genitalia• Can’t figure it out… react physically
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Rubies
Hidden DepthsRed Light on Fine Motor
Comprehension & Speech HaltCoordination Falters
Wake-Sleep Patterns are Gone
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Rubies
• Fine motor stops• Hard to stop and hard to get going• Limited visual awareness• One direction – forward only• Can’t figure out details – but do copy us• SLOW to change• On the go or full stop• Use music and rhythm
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Pearls
Hidden in a ShellStill & QuietEasily Lost
Beautiful - LayeredUnable to Move – Hard to ConnectPrimitive Reflexes on the Outside
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Pearls
• Can’t move• Not aware of the world around – most of the
time• Problems swallowing• Hard to get connected• How we touch and help matters• SLOW!!!!• Varies a LOT
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Why is Dementia Different as the Journey Happens?
• It typically takes a LONG TIME• The person will change, and change, and
change, and change….• You are losing the person, even as they remain• You are changing over the journey• How it WAS is NOT how it IS…• What should happen/work , DOESN”T…
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What are the Different Care Approaches to Consider?
• Health Promotion• Curative• Restorative - Rehabilitative• Maintenance• Compensatory• Palliative
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Health Promotion
• Check Ups• Annual vaccinations• Lower the numbers• Increase activity level• Eat well – moderately• Monitor all conditions for careful control• DO WHAT YOU SHOULD to be the BEST YOU
CAN BE!
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Curative
• Fix what is wrong• Test to figure out what is happening then DO
SOMETHING ABOUT IT:– Surgery– Medications– Treatment
• Full recovery of function – GOOD as NEW!
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Restorative
• Recovery of SOME degree of function or ability
• Focuses on the PERSON regaining skills and abilities with help– Rehab personnel– Special equipment– New techniques
• Not perfect, but BACK to a Higher level of Function
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Maintenance
• Maintaining the Status Quo – Keepin’ ON• Not losing ground• Depends on:– Physical environment not changing– Caregiver consistency– Sustained abilities of the person– All other things staying the same
• It’s HARD WORK … SO…– ‘IS what I have worth keeping???’
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Compensatory
• Providing what the person can’t do to ‘fill in the gaps so that LIFE GOES ON….
• Supportive – Physical environment changes– Caregiver cueing and helping changes– Expectations change– Schedules and routines change to accommodate
• End Point is the Same – – How we get there Changes
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Palliative
• Comfort Care• TOP PRIORITY – – Honor personal preferences and choices– Manage Pain, Distress, Anxiety, Fear, Discomfort
• Identify & seek to meet social, physical, psychological, and spiritual needs
• Let go of FIXING and MOVE ON to Comforting
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Acute Illness Versus Dementia
• You can FIX IT!• IT gets better & goes
away• It lasts only a SHORT
time• Doctors KNOW what to
do to make it better• The person goes back to
how they were pre-illness
• You can’t change it• It keeps getting WORSE
No matter what you do!• It lasts a LONG time –
YEARS• Doctors can offer only
help – they can’t fix it• You can’t go home
again – The person is NEVER the same
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Progression of Dementia
• Early Loss – Habits and Routines• Moderate Loss - Just get it DONE!• Middle Loss – Hunting and Gathering• Sever Loss – Constant GO or Down & Out• Profound Loss – Stuck in Glue
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What Does this Look Like?
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Letting Go Versus Giving Up
• When is it time?• How will you know?• What is enough?• Who should help decide?• How to balance OLD wishes/promises and the
current realities• How can we make it happen?• What do we do instead?
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So When Should You Say WHEN!
• Cost versus benefit• What is possible VERSUS what is PROBABLE• Best Case Outcome – Is it worth it? • Big Picture for the person• What did they tell you before?• Who are they… are they still able to be that
person?• Is this about them or about you or about
someone else???
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Signs that it may be time…• Repeated infections • Antibiotics seem
ineffective• Refusals to eat – even
favorite items• Holding food in mouth –
spitting it out• Soft coughs – wet voice• Stop moving – curling up• Sleeping a lot• Lots of low grade fevers• Primitive reflexes show
up
• Withdrawal from those around – closing eyes
• Drifting in and out• Says ‘good-bye’• Talks about ‘going home’• Asks permission to go• Albumin drops very low• Wounds won’t heal• Can’t keep weight on• Skin and bones• Moaning – not actively
communicating
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What does this Mean?
• Reduce or stop monitoring – if there is not a ‘treatment’ that will be pursued
• Provide what the person wants or needs NOT what is ‘best’ for them
• Provide comfort – – Assess for and manage pain, discomfort, or
distress
• Give permission to GO….
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What Does This Mean?• Don’t treat infections, IF…• Don’t force INTAKE• Don’t Push Fluids or Put
in IVs• Don’t Force movement• Don’t Just ‘DO CARE’ –
and leave alone• Don’t Force Interaction
• Treat the discomfort of infections…
• Offer tastes, textures• Offer fluids – decide
about thickened…• Use touch, massage,
controlled repositioning• Be present, balance
offerings of silence & space with communication & contact
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How Can We Get This to Happen?
• Plan ahead• Talk A LOT• Get HC-POA• Get educated• Get support – all on one page• Keep checking in• Re-evaluate• Ask questions THEN Listen, then think, then act
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Questions????