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How the Montessori for Ageing and Dementia Movement is Changing Care for Elders
Mandy Cheskis and Margaret Jarrell joined Greenspring Center for Lifelong Learning on their Voices of Montessori podcast to discuss Montessori for Aging and Dementia and how this movement is changing care for elders. After painting a picture of the current state of longterm care, Mandy and Margaret ...
Can Over-Caring 'Rob the Independence' of People with Dementia?
Care staff and families need to be mindful they don’t fall into the trap of over-caring for people with dementia, warns dementia care expert, Anne Kelly in a re...
AMI Staff
| 19 August 2021
Reading time: 5 minutes
Not Just Caring, Enabling
Anne Kelly was interviewed recently for The Elder Magazine.
AMI Staff
| 28 January 2020
Reading time: 7 minutes
Positive Transformation in a Montessori Long-Term Care Household
Dr. Maria Montessori wrote that “joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors o...
Jennifer Brush
| 28 October 2019
Reading time: 5 minutes
Tips for Creating Signs for your Montessori Program
Cognitive mapping is our ability to visualise where we are in a certain space.
It allows us to park, go into a store and find our car again, or find the bathroom...
Jennifer Brush
| 10 February 2018
Reading time: 3 minutes
