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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no comment on if it racist or discriminatory BUT I HAVE A SOLUTION

I spent almost a decade in various leadership positions in long term care facilities as charge nurse on up to director of nursing and have encountered similar issues my solution is that staff member wear something else on their scrubs to help identify themselves daily to their residents that their residents can use to remember them by. I had one staff member who used a fake blue flower pinned to their scrub top every day. She of course had to cue the residents a lot at first “remember Mrs Smith I’m Larla with the blue flower that’s how you can remember me” but eventually they got it and many of them would look for that blue flower and her changing hair style became background noise that no one noticed

OP - can you suggest something like this?[/quote]
So is the dementia patient supposed  to remember what a blue flower means  on one person,  and  a yellow scarf on another, etc?

IT'S DEMENTIA.  DEMENTIA. [/quote]

I’m the one who posted that. I’ve purposefully ignored the posters who stated “get a name tag get a name tag” because that IS a silly suggestion. Nametags are small, difficult to pick out on a uniform and who knows what reading ability may still be there.

I am not expecting dementia patients to keep some sort of catalog in their head of who has a blue flower etc. but I have found that after weeks of calm consistent repetition with their most important caregivers a LARGE EASY TO SEE identifier can start to stick in their memory as “this is a safe person”[/quote]

Like the same hairstyle or scrubs? Agreed.

Most women in this position cut their hair (and nails) short or pull it back in a ponytail or twist.

If you’re working with dementia patients, your fashionable hairstyle shouldn’t be a priority. [/quote]

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