The Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument for Occupational Profiling: A Practical Resource for Carers of People with Cognitive Impairment Fourth ... of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides)

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A PAL Guide that describes how to support the person at that level of ability is produced from the completed assessment. Guiding the reader through a series of clear, practical steps and using case studies to enable them to understand, plan and implement activities for clients, this is an essential resource for any practitioner or carer wanting to provide fulfilling occupation for clients with cognitive impairments. Practitioners can learn to provide CST for people with dementia by following the CST manual by Spector et al (2006) or attending CST training (see www.

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This book includes a section on using the PAL Checklist to carry out sensory interventions, together with the photocopiable Instrument itself in a new easy-to-use format, and plans that help to match users' abilities to activities. The book also contains suggestions for activities, together with information on obtaining the necessary resources and guidance for carrying out the activities with individuals of different ability levels. There are also many reported benefits of enhanced communication between a person with dementia and staff members through the introduction of a doll.A care plan can then be carefully tailored to create the best possible quality of life for that individual.

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Aware of others in the group and will work alongside others although tends to focus on own activity.

This substantially revised edition includes photocopiable activity checklists and plans which take into account users' life histories and help to match abilities with activities, as well as new features such as an outcome sheet and re-formatted checklists.