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What is the Dementia Simulation Toolkit (DST)? The INTenSE Dementia Simulation Toolkit (DST) aims to provide health care professionals and other dementia care partners with tools and scenarios to employ the self-experience method in dementia care.
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The Dementia Simulation Toolkit includes a range of training...
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Identify and utilize dementia simulation techniques and scenarios Use these simulations to engage participants in reflection and develop a deeper understanding of dementia and frailty
Self-experience is scientifically demonstrated to be a good way to create empathy and real understanding. The INTenSE Dementia Simulation Toolkit (DST) aims at providing a method of self-experience by simulating dementia symptoms through the use of state-of-the-art self-experience practices.
Arcadia High School teacher Darcy Brodison struggles to complete tasks wearing gloves that simulate the difficulty some mid-stage Alzheimer’s patients have with dexterity. Hospice of the Valley’s internationally recognized dementia team has created “Dementia Moments” — a virtual experience that can literally put any one of us in the ...
The Dementia Simulation Toolkit includes a range of training scenarios that reflect some of the lived experiences of people with dementia. These scenarios use different methods and tools to simulate dementia symptoms which allow people to gain insight into dementia through self-experience.
Use the Dementia Simulation Experience to help students understand the effects of dementia, how a person with dementia can feel, and how to care for and communicate with individuals suffering from a dementia-related condition.
Cognitive assessments are useful for detecting dementia, informing specific diagnoses and helping people to understand/cope with their cognitive symptoms. These typically test mental abilities, such as memory or thinking, however, the assessment process is not always tailored to the needs of people with dementia.
