To address the problems behaviors that accompany dementia, there are two strategies you can rely on. The first is called the three "R" and is particularly useful in cases where the person with dementia is being delusional hallucinations or posters. This strategy proposes:
1. Repeat
2. Reassure
3. Reorient
In other words, help the patient to realize the environment in which they find themselves constantly explaining what is happening. And do not contradict, it is useless to try to convince a patient that no one is robbing, better direct its attention elsewhere.
Another strategy that can help, as a sort of grid for the evaluation of behavior in order to collect the information necessary to understand and possibly prevent those behaviors highly disturbing. The strategy is called "ABC" (which stands for Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence), or History, Behavior, Consequences. In fact, some difficult to manage symptoms such as agitation, may have environmental causes: pay attention to when they occur can be discovered for example that over-stimulation (too many relatives visiting) can be counterproductive. Then: A
as before and we want to identify everything that happened before the behavior, or what was the context in which the person was.
B behavior and how we want to identify the conduct or behavior as problematic.
C as the consequences and want to understand everything that has emerged once the conduct in question.
The goal is to detect the presence of behavioral rules or constants that characterize the interactive sequence between patient and caregiver.
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