Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Today we welcomed a member with dementia and his wife to our group.
In my last post, I noted how we generated great feedback from our group Discovery exercise. Today, we reviewed the four key themes of our discussion and came up with a fantastic acronym, the WIRL, and discussed how it represented a ‘compass’ guiding our CCC (W= working together, I= including and respecting, R= recognizing and knowing, and L= learning and sharing).
We also explored possible strategies for our Discovery phase (e.g. interview, focus groups, and written accounts of positive care experiences) involving multiple stakeholders (persons with dementia, family members, case managers, Day Program staff, spiritual leaders, etc). The transition to needing/using community care services was identified as a potential topic for further study by our CCC.
We're certainly accomplishing a lot!
