Restraint-Free Care in Nursing Homes

INDIVIDUALIZED INTERVENTIONS
To Respond to Behavior Communicating Resident Distress

Individualized Interventions to Respond to Behavior Associated with Cognitive Loss

A. Causes of Cognitive Impairment: "3 Ds"

B. Approaches to Respond to Behavioral Symptoms

C. Restraint-Free Care Interventions

Restraints have many negative consequences and their efficacy is not supported in the literature. In the next section we provide practical methods to respond to behavior related to cognitive loss with innovative restraint-free care methods.


Last updated May 14, 2003