Eliminate Confusing Environment
- Identify rooms using pictures, signs, and decorations.
- Surround the person with dementia with familiar objects.
- Minimize clutter and noise and Maximize light.
- Remove items that might trigger the desire to wander (shoes and coats near a door).
- Use clocks to help orient to the time of day.
- Provide written reminders to reassure the person with dementia about daily events.
- Use reassuring, calm and positive verbal suggestions.
- Avoid confrontation.