dementia InJoy
When a person loses cognitive capacities and experiences dementia, this loss does not mean joy and engagement cannot continue to be felt and fostered. Yet too many of our elder-care managerial protocols are about filling the beds and performing the day-to-day tasks as efficiently as possible. There lacks a conscious commitment and recognition that positive emotion-laden staff involvement is cost-effective and humane.
Even if the spark of deep staff-patient engagement were to become an industry aspiration for dementia care, not everyone connects the same way.
Human-Centered Design
It is now practical and possible to develop a personalized, human-centered design for joyful, deeply felt engagement for each unique person suffering from dementia. This personalized bespoke engagement will scale to become the recreated industry standard of care for anyone who wants the most compassionate, personalized care for their loved-ones. dementia InJoy is the matrix for such a design.
“dementia InJoy engages patients through identifying their individual pre-cognitive portals to joy and creating their bespoke playground.”
Why dementia InJoy
The personalized strategies dementia InJoy employs have been proven to reduce:
- Agitation
- Restraining practices
- Pharmaceutical solutions
We custom design to fit the needs of all your players: your dementia-care patients, care-givers and staff, and facility. Dementia care does not need to be a death bed for the human spirit. dementia InJoy is dedicated to making life a joyful playground until the very last breath.
Neuroscience of Play in Dementia
Because play comes from the pre-verbal, subcortical areas of the brain and is not adversely affected by reduced cognitive function, this primal area of the brain which inspires deep engagement is where we need to focus. Not everyone plays the same. How an individual plays becomes the matrix of personalized human-centered dementia InJoy design; a design grounded in the neuroscience of play.
Co-founder Stuart Brown, age 82, served as Thought Leader to AARP, bringing play science to its 40,000,000 members over the age of 50.
Stuart Brown and co-founder Kristen Cozad collaborated with the former iconic CEO of Texas Medical Center Richard Wainerdi and his son TJ Wainerdi. They contributed to the innovative play science design of the Feasibility Study for Nevada Medical Center at Las Vegas founded by Eric M. Hilton, and funded by the Conrad Hilton Foundation.
The dementia InJoy application offers a new re-creative matrix for dementia care, whether the care-taking setting be a newly designed aged-care facility, a legacy facility, or home-based care.