MY STORY & THERAPY
PERSON-CENTRED CARE
My Story – Personal Content Library
RemindMecare (aka ReMe) builds a profile of the person by hosting content uploaded by the family and capturing knowledge and content discovered during digital activities. The library houses an ever growing knowledge base, usable for entertainment, engagement and therapy.
Key Features
ReMe’s Session Player presents a sequence of bespoke content for exploration. It can be used one to one with a carer or in a group with up to 8 users taking part in a session coordinated by a formal carer.
Sessions can be run on any Internet-enabled computer, tablet, smartphone or TV. The system automatically finds material online to display. When content triggers a response, verbal or non verbal, pressing ‘Pause’ starts a process. You talk. You listen. You learn.
Then, choose to follow pre-selected subjects or change direction prompted by any new response. The system securely stores the responses to content displayed for later review.
The Session Player activity is designed specifically to support the following:
- COLLABORATION — two or more people “working together”. Ensuring the person with dementia is not cast into a passive role.
- PLAY — an exercise in spontaneity and self-expression. Validation acknowledges the reality of a person’s emotions, feelings and experience. The intended outcome is for the person to feel more alive, more connected and more ‘real’.
- CELEBRATION — when the division between caregiver and cared-for comes close to vanishing completely, with both being taken into a similar mood, absorbed in a joyful moment.
- FACILITATION — enables doing what not normally able to do, assisting interaction and at a speed slow enough to allow meaning to develop.
- CREATION — the spontaneous response by the person with dementia from his or her stock of ability and social skill. This creative act is acknowledged and responded to without taking over control.
Using the ReMe Session Player
Session Review
A simple session review process allows team members or family, at a time that suits them, to securely revisit content that led to a response. They can request validation from colleagues or family members who may be able to fill in gaps in knowledge or interpret new information that’s come to light. They receive a brief email displaying the content that triggered the response and a single specific question. This updates selected members of the Care Circle with care activities undertaken and offers a means to choose to become involved remotely in a manageable and undaunting way.
Change Direction
A simple session review process allows team members or family, at a time that suits them, to securely revisit content that led to a response. They can request validation from colleagues or family members who may be able to fill in gaps in knowledge or interpret new information that’s come to light.
They receive a brief email displaying the content that triggered the response and a single specific question. This updates selected members of the Care Circle with care activities undertaken and offers a means to choose to become involved remotely in a manageable and undaunting way.
Capture Conversations
Whilst a conversation is taking place, ReMe makes it possible to illustrate it with multi-media content and if appropriate record a voice over, document stories that are told and inform the family of this new discovery. These can then be used at a later date to continue the engagement and can also be used as part of a care plan if the content has been found to be valuable in achieving engagement and calming.
Explore Music
ReMe finds music from any artist or genre that the user has defined as being important to them. Presented alongside personal content or as part of a music-only session, this form of entertainment is a key part of the ReMe activity.
Photo Albums
These can be created around specific content and played to suit the mood. Family, favourite sports and sporting event photos and videos, their job, film stars. Multiple albums can be created remotely by the family for use in the care process or simply for shared engagement and reminiscence. Each photo or video can be spoken over to record a verbal description, that will be automatically played when the content is viewed.
Favourite Media
Radio show, TV shows, film clips, can be collated into playlists to offer easy access to favourite media content to which the person is known to be responsive.
Cognitive Stimulation Therapy
We’ve created games and quizzes that simultaneously provide cognitive stimulation and entertainment. They provide a means to monitor the engagement levels of the participant/s and their responsiveness and wellbeing post a session can be recorded. The provide excellent media for generating group engagement.
Group Activity & Entertainment
When a session is created with more than one participant ReMe highlights common areas within all the users’ profiles. Creating a session with some of these shared topics ensures themes are explored which have relevance to many participants. Common experiences can be discussed, other similarities become apparent through conversation and bonds are created.
RemindMeCare is fun for anyone. And for many people with dementia, with their particularly strong social needs, ReMe group activity can assist in generating relaxation.
Readymade Activities
ReMe provides many activities that are ready just to be used and we regularly upload more. These include music from the decades, films, quizzes and digital puzzles, games and pictograms. At key seasonal times, such as Christmas specialised activities are provided. All can be used on a 1:1 or group basis.
Physical Activities
ReMe offers physical activities that using pre-recorded videos that can be played on a TV screen when connected to a tablet. This makes providing regular sessions easy and frees up the carer to more closely interact with those present.
Reporting
All activities and their participants are recorded for use in reporting but without the need for any data input as all actions, activities and engagements are automatically recorded in background.
Reports are ready automatically formatted, should they be required by management or visiting inspectors, instantly validating the consistancy and quality of the person centred care being delivered by your staff.
The Electronic Life Records Data can be integrated and transferred to other systems, such as Care Planning software, through an available api/
