Task Boxes
Resources for aged care providers or family and friends caring for loved ones
Memory Box Collective’s Task Boxes, as featured in Maggie Beer’s Big Mission, contain all the required resources to engage an older person in familiar, failure-free tasks.
Task Boxes have been specifically devised for use with older adults living with memory loss, cognitive impairment, dementia or delirium.
Designed using Montessori and Occupational Therapy principles, our Task Boxes involve simple day-to-day tasks that promote engagement and fight boredom.
Each box contains all the items required for the task, so there is minimal preparation required.
As well as helping you to engage and connect with your loved one, they help the person with dementia to feel useful and capable.
Task boxes can be used with older adults living at home. They’re also a handy resource for use in day centres, memory support units, residential care facilities, mental health units, and hospitals.
Online Task Box Training
Does your loved one with dementia have nothing to do?
Have they stopped being able to do the things they love?
Are you running out of ideas for things to do together?
Task boxes provide a failure free way to keep your loved one busy.
Engaging in a task box can help to maintain skills and abilities and promote reminiscence of the past.
“During Maggie’s experiment, all staff were trained in how to use task boxes. We saw carers who had never run an activity before engaging residents in task boxes, laughing and interacting, and learning about each other – this is such an important step in delivering person-centred care.”
Courses
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Online Task Box Training
This two-hour online training will provide participants with an overview of dementia, and why task boxes are an effective engagement tool for this client group. Participants will learn how to create and use task boxes according to a set of principles and steps.
Presenter: Elizabeth Oliver, Occupational Therapist, Care Change Consultant
Audience: Allied health professionals, diversional therapists, nurses, care partners, support workers, therapy assistants, lifestyle coordinators, lifestyle facilitators, students and families.
Format: 2hr online workshop
Investment: $300+GST per participant
Time / Date: 9.00-11.00am AWST Thursday 21st November 2024
Inclusions:Training Slides PDF (emailed after training)
Task Box Manual (hard copy, mailed after training)
Two Task Box Templates (hard copy, mailed after training)
Participants who have completed the training will be able to purchase additional Task Box Templates
Content:• What is dementia and what are the different types
• Stages of dementia
• Signs, symptoms and strengths
• Understanding responsive behaviours
• Meeting universal needs
• Basic communication approaches
• Importance of activities
• Montessori and OT principles
• How to create task boxes
• How to successfully facilitate task boxes
• How to evaluate success
• How to embed the task boxes
Please register your interest below to receive dates and further enrolment details for this course.
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