OT 100 Presentation

1. Christopher Castro
OT 100

2. What is Memory Care?
 Specialized Care
 Staff are Trained
 Settings
 Skilled Nursing Homes
 Assisted Living Communities
 Retirement Housing

3. What is Dementia?
“an overall decline in intellectual function,
including difficulties with language, simple
calculations, planning and judgment, and
abstract reasoning, as well as loss of
memory”

4. Stages of Dementia
 Pre-Dementia: symptoms may be
present, but function is not impaired
 Mild Dementia: impairment with ADL’s
 Moderate Dementia: requires cueing to
perform ADL’s
 Severe Dementia: can no longer
perform basic ADL’s even with cueing

5. Types of Dementia
 Over 70 types of Dementia
 Alzheimer’s Disease = 60-80% of
dementia cases

6. 2015 Alzheimer’s Statistics
 5.3 million cases of AD in America
 5.1 million over the age of 65
 2025 = 7.1 million (age 65+)
 2050 = 13.8 million (age 65+)

7. OT Approaches
 Health Promotion:
 Maintaining strengths
 Maximizing performance
 Remediation:
 Strength
 Endurance
 ROM

8. OT Approaches
 Maintenance:
 Habits
 Routines
 Modification
 Altering environment

9. Intervention Techniques
 Hand-Over-Hand
 Chaining
 Bridging
 Errorless Learning
 Spaced Retrieval Training
 Animal Assisted Therapy

10. Q & A