Proposal for the empowerment of interdependent self management support for people with dementia
Journal Title: Journal of Geriatric Care and Research - Year 2019, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The concept of ‘living well’ varies among individuals, and such diversity should be valued. However, maintaining co-beneficial relationships is critical for all the persons with dementia to live well with dementia, since dementia gradually affects independence in daily living. From practical experience, there can be at least five key factors that help preserve social function: 1) focusing on individuals’ preserved functions and strengths rather than their deficits; 2) providing shared decision making; 3) ensuring their initiative in decision making; 4) working towards autonomous interdependence, and 5) maintaining reciprocal, beneficial, and grateful relationships. This manuscript proposes a method of self-management support called ‘Self-Management of Autonomous Interdependent Life Empowerment’ (SMILE). The goals of SMILE are: 1) to strengthen reciprocal relationships in people with dementia; 2) to make people with dementia feel needed, and 3) help people with dementia sense their own existence in their relationships.
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Yohko Maki
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