Montessori Dementia Care
Struggling with dementia care? Loved one or resident exhibiting “challenging” behaviors such as repetitive questions, rummaging, and wandering? Are they struggling to do daily activities like personal care, paying bills, and eating?
I help families and professional care partners learn how to help people live well with dementia. I help you resolve challenging behaviors and bring back more independence and joy.
Montessori care is unlike the traditional dementia care we typically see. The research on Montessori care shows that most of the “challenging behaviors” we see in dementia care don’t have to happen and they are not “just part of dementia.” It also shows that people with dementia can do things, even late into dementia. They can cook, clean, play games, do art, volunteer, build things, fix things, and engage in everyday life.
If you are looking for a better kind of dementia care that maintains dignity, meaning and purpose by creating environments that work with the brain, not against it, then you are in the right place.
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Your Dementia Care Specialist
Rev. Katie Norris
Rev. Katie, M.Div. has been working in dementia care and brain health for 15 years. She was is the first person in the world to become an AMI Montessori in Dementia Care Practitioner.
Her journey with dementia care started after she and her family moved in with her parents to care for her mother who had Lewy Body Dementia. Her family was given the typical pamphlet about dementia, and told there was nothing they could do to help her mom live well with dementia. No one, not even hired caregivers, were able to help Katie and her family know how to help her mother do things she loved, like cook or engage in art. No one knew how to handle her mothers hallucinations, confusion with daily tasks, or anxieties.
Katie decided to learn about dementia care and that is how the found Montessori based dementia care. She taught dementia care to other families in her community and eventually took her education online and now runs a membership for family care partners and teaches professional trainings and offers courses for dementia care professionals.
She is the primary author of Creative Connections in Dementia Care®: Engaging Activities to Enhance Communication and is featured in the book “The Joy of Movement” by Dr. Kelly McGonigal.
Rev. Katie is also the co-founder of the Carolyn L. Farrell Foundation for Brain Health and is a Unitarian Universalist Community Minster.
She is a Primal Health Coach, The Ready State Mobility Coach, Z-Health Practitioner, and Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach.
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