Outcomes

The Big Band Musical Program has been very effective in demonstrating to administrators, supervisors, non-clinical staff and primary care staff that residents with dementia have latent social skills that are un-tapped by typical every-day experiences in the nursing home.

• Lend broad leadership support to program innovations that support person centered care.
• Encourage non-clinical staff to build relationships and spend time with residents in pleasurable activity that shows residents doing their best demonstrate residents functional capacities for care planners and the interdisciplinary team to use in their activity.
• Demonstrate residents' functional capacities for care planners and the interdisciplinary team to use in their activity.
• Introduce administrator, department heads and other facility leadership to strength based activity for residents with dementia.
• Encourage residents and staff to enjoy time together as people with mutual interests who can have fun together.

Encouraging all facility staff to take turn attending can:

• Introduce administrator, department heads and other facility leadership to strength-based activity for residents with dementia.
• Lend broad leadership support to program innovations that support person centered care.
• Encourage non-clinical staff to build relationships and spend time with residents in pleasurable activity that shows residents doing their best
• Demonstrate residents' functional capacities for care planners and the interdisciplinary team to use in their activity.
• Encourage residents and staff to enjoy time together as people with mutual interests who can have fun together.