It gives you a really great feeling, knowing that what you are doing is making somebody's day: Provider perspectives on implementing the individualized positive psychosocial interaction

It gives you a really great feeling, knowing that what you are doing is making somebody's day: Provider perspectives on implementing the individualized positive psychosocial interaction
Psychological Services; Cassandra Keiser, Molly Noble, Kimberly VanHaitsma, Katherine M Abbott; 11/24
The Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) is an evidence-based program that supports engaging people living with dementia and their care partners in the nursing home (NH). IPPIs are brief, one-to-one, preference-based activities to improve well-being and decrease behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. Champions voiced that the IPPI program was cost-effective, adaptable to their local contexts, and provided training to staff to support residents experiencing distress. Overall, the IPPI program goals are aligned with nursing home organization goals, supporting staff in providing comfort to residents communicating distress, and can be feasibly implemented.