Cumunication and behaviorIn all cases try to understand the meaning

Chooze to :

• Stay face to face, attract attention
• Give your name
• Name the person
• Keep a normal voice tone (calming)
• Use simple sentences
• Be tolerant and positive
• get in physical touch with the person
  if he/she refuses to collaborate :
• don’t be too insistent, accept to stay apart
• suggest a derivative
  For security :
• Put away all the dangerous materials
• Don’t use physical contentions
  Avoid to :
• Speak without personifying
• Long speeches
• The " no ", the forbidding
• Situations bound to fail
• Complex words
• Depreciation
• Questionning (ie : what is my name)

Planning activities schedule (goals : patient and caregiver well-being)

• Choose simple, routine, pleasant activities
• Organise regular planning
• Emphasize physical activities
• Encourage social contacts
• Keep he/she partnership for family decisions
• Partcipitation to home activities

If behavior disorders, agitation or apathy think to :

• Medical problem :
• Pulmonary infection
• Urinary nfection
• Dental Infection
• Deshydratation

• Physical Problem :
• Discomfort In Position
• Discomfort In Clothes
• Pain

• Affective problem
• Bothering
• Depression
• Anxiety
• delusions

check temperature, regulary stools, foods and drinking
if agitation follow force or restraint situation
(bathing, toiletting...) :

• don’t argue or justify
• propose an another activity
  if the problem is persistent : call your physician