The Residents’ Voice

by Pieta Valentine

The residents diagnosed with dementia have a working intellect and it can be engaged and activated. The extent of their ability to learn and engage through the intellect depends to a certain extent on the individual and how they’ve lived, how they think, their motivation, fitness, health, resilience, outlook and their support network. In telling their story, and relaying their message. The Residents’ Voice shares what Daisy learned from them, and offers a unique range of advice and strategies for friends and family of those institutionalized with dementia.

About the Author

Physiotherapist Pieta Valentine is from a medical family and trained in Otago New Zealand before travelling across Asia and Europe then working in London and Canada before setting up her first physiotherapy practice in Sydney Australia.

Settling back in Christchurch, in the early 1990s she witnessed the thousands struck with painful OOS/ RSI conditions from the stress of computers introduced in to government departments. So she set up clinic and company self-management programs all around the city.

Physiotherapists are problem solvers, enabling patients to self-manage through effort and hard work. This ethos Pieta has applied to all her work endeavors.

THE RESIDENTS’ VOICE - FROM A DEMENTIA UNIT

Pieta Valentine

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