Our Montessori Approach to Dementia Care
Putting emphasis on our care recipients’ strengths, giving them choices, and creating purpose and meaning, the Montessori approach can be empowering and life-transforming for dementia care recipients and caregivers alike.
Using the Montessori guiding principles, we deliver quality dementia care to the elderly in Singapore by
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focusing on the strengths of persons with dementia |
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providing them carefully-planned activities that offer choices and are purposeful |
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creating templates for daily activities and tasks, and breaking down these tasks into easy-to-follow steps |
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building the confidence of our care recipients by empowering them to complete simple tasks then preparing and challenging them to perform more complex procedures |
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evaluating the activities of our participants by measuring their level of engagement in our activities |
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cultivating a team of caring staff empowered to communicate and engage with persons with dementia |
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educating and enabling family caregivers and foreign domestic helpers in dementia care using the Montessori Approach |
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training healthcare and eldercare workers to engage people with dementia through purposeful activities |
Montessori Methods Adapted for Local Context
Adapted and modified for the local context, the Montessori Approach has been developed based on the researched and evidence-based Montessori-based Dementia Programming® (MBDP®) founded by Dr Cameron Camp. A proven method of working with older adults living with cognitive and/or physical impairments, MBDP® is based on the ideas of renown educator Maria Montessori. The method is widely used throughout USA, Europe and Australia.