The Alzheimer’s Podcast:
Navigating Rough Terrain with the Dementia Sherpa
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Hello and Welcome to Episode 29 of The Alzheimer’s Podcast
I’m Mike Good of Together in This.
And Thank you for joining me for another podcast where my goal is always to empower you to maintain a positive experience, reduce and eliminate the need for medications, & make your time together with those you care for, the best it can be.
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Show Notes:
In this episode of Navigating Rough Terrain with The Dementia Sherpa, Christy Turner, the Dementia Sherpa, and I introduce you to Looping.
Looping is very common in dementia care. It can involve the repeating of stories or fixations. How you approach it and/or embrace it makes a world of difference in your interaction with the individual.
Allow it to happen and you can have a deeper, richer interaction with your loved one. Resist it, and you can create a very negative experience for everyone.
In case you’re new, Christy Turner, the Dementia Sherpa, joins me every other Tuesday for a discussion to help empower you to be successful as you care for someone living with dementia.
She is a Certified Dementia Practitioner, Certified Dementia Care Unit Manager, and Cognitive Stimulation Instructor. She has run award-winning memory care communities in assisted living and skilled nursing levels of care.
Using her 16 years of experience in working with over 1,100 people living with dementia and their families, she’s developed a system that helps families move from crisis management to confidence.
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FAQs
Looping is very common in dementia care. It can involve the repeating of stories or fixations. How you approach it and/or embrace it makes a world of difference in your interaction with the individual. Allow it to happen and you can have a deeper, richer interaction with your loved one.
What is the quality of interactions? ›
Interaction quality. This includes the perceived input and output quality of the system as well as its cooperativity. Input quality relates to perceived system understanding and input comfort; output quality, to perceived system understandability and form appropriateness.
What is the strategy of looping? ›
Looping is an advanced strategy that allows you to utilize the same collateral multiple times, resulting in a higher yield from a larger principal. For example, starting with 1k worth of collateral, after a few loops, you can enjoy a yield generated by over 3k worth of collateral.
Why is looping beneficial? ›
As described in the educational literature, looping is a practice that allows teachers to remain with their class for a period of two or more years. Looping has proved to be an effective process that increases student achievement, supports instructional time, and provides enhanced teacher-student relationship.
What are the disadvantages of looping in education? ›
Disadvantages of Looping
- Implementation can be challenging. It is often challenging to convince other teachers to commit to a looping format and an administration to support you in implementing looping. ...
- Students experience class with only one. ...
- The curriculum needs to advance with the students.
What are the 3 main types of interactions? ›
The three types of interactions in an ecosystem are competition, predation and symbiosis. Symbiosis also contains three different types of interactions including mutualism, commensalism and parasitism.
What are the five major types of interactions? ›
The main types of interspecific interactions include competition (-/-), predation (+/-), mutualism, (+/+), commensalism (+/0), and parasitism (+/-).
What is the purpose of looping? ›
The looping simplifies the complex problems into the easy ones. It enables to alter the flow of the program so that instead of writing the same code again and again, we can execute the same code for a finite number of times.
What is an example of looping? ›
A "For" Loop is used to repeat a specific block of code a known number of times. For example, if we want to check the grade of every student in the class, we loop from 1 to that number.
What is looping and types of looping? ›
Loop Meaning in Programming
Loop Type | Use Case |
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For loop | When the number of iterations is known or fixed. |
While loop | When the loop should only be executed if a specific condition holds true. |
Do-while loop | When the loop should be executed at least once and continue as long as the condition is true. |
Definition: Loops are a programming element that repeat a portion of code a set number of times until the desired process is complete. Repetitive tasks are common in programming, and loops are essential to save time and minimize errors.
What is looping for understanding? ›
His proposed solution is that you simply “loop for understanding”. In his words: There's a technique for this—looping for understanding. Here's how it works: Ask questions, to make sure you understand what someone has said. Repeat back, in your own words, what you heard.
What does the practice of looping involve? ›
Looping, also known as “continuous learning,” “continuity of care,” “continuous progress,” or “persisting groups,” is the practice of keeping the same caregiver or teacher with a group of children for two to three years (Grant, Johnson and Richardson, 1996; Lab at Brown University, 1997).
What is the most common problem with loops? ›
Loops can easily go wrong with the most common problems being: Loops that never start. Loops that never finish.
What is a looping problem? ›
CCC was motivated by the so-called “looping problem” that happens when a node that has removed a message from its buffer continues to receive the message from other nodes. To address this problem, CCC proposes a looping control scheme and a congestion control policy.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of for loop? ›
The advantage of the for-each loop is that it eliminates the possibility of bugs and makes the code more readable. It is known as the for-each loop because it traverses each element of the given collection one by one. The drawback of the enhanced for loop is that it cannot traverse the elements in reverse order.
What is the quality or condition of interaction? ›
One body of research has made a strong distinction between interaction and interactivity. As the suffix 'ity' is used to form nouns that denote a quality or condition, this body of research has defined interactivity as the 'quality or condition of interaction'.
What are the characteristics of high quality interactions? ›
The role of the adult is to be attuned and responsive.
Maintain eye contact: look expectantly at children as you engage in conversation with them. Be warm and receptive: welcome children's attempts to communicate. Promote friendship: foster children's friendship skills, emotional understanding and emotional expression.
What is the quality of interaction schedule? ›
Quality of Interaction Schedule (QUIS)
Communication and behaviour is a vitally important component of dignified care. The quality of interaction audit is tool designed to help evaluate the type and quality of communication that places on the ward inspected.
How do you describe an interaction? ›
an occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to each other: interaction between There's not enough interaction between the management and the workers.