The COPE Program

Dementia Coaching Sessions

A Better Quality of Life
at Home With Dementia

Contact us to discuss your unique situation
and determine how COPE can make life at home easier
for you and your loved one.

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Live Joyfully With Dementia

Despite the difficulties that a dementia diagnosis can bring, it is still possible to live a life filled with hope and joy. COPE Dementia Coaching sessions are the first of their kind in Arizona, offering families and care partners professional dementia training tailored to your specific situation and home environment.

Our medical team will assess key challenges you’re experiencing in your home, and work with you to determine goals that make life easier for yourself and your loved one living with dementia. You’ll learn effective communication techniques, what’s causing your loved one to respond in a certain manner, how to redirect expressions, and manage care partner distress and burnout.

After your participation in the COPE Program, you’ll have the tools, strategies, and information to make life easier for you, and your loved one living with dementia.

Living at home with Alzheimer’s or other dementia?
Learn practical strategies to overcome:

Anxiety/Fear • Arguing • Bathing Challenges • Exit Seeking or Wandering • Boredeom • Repeating •
Misunderstanding of Dementia • Care Partner Overwhelm or Burnout •

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Our Approach

After a dementia diagnosis, it’s common to experience challenges impacting everyone in the home. However, these challenges are often manageable with a better understanding of their underlying triggers.

Clinically customized sessions take place in the comfort of your own home, to assess your unique situation and provide you with tools and evidence-based solutions to enhance quality-of-life for you and your loved one. A COPE* Certified Occupational Therapist and team will utilize a hands-on approach to empower you with simple changes you can make to overcome obstacles, giving you the ability and confidence to manage the complexities of dementia care at home and enjoy a life filled with hope, purpose, laughter, and JOY!

We’ll visit your home to meet with you and your loved one living with dementia to determine the needs, abilities, strengths, and challenges that you’re experiencing. An Occupational Therapist will complete a comprehensive assessment to develop goals to focus on in the sessions ahead.
Our clinicians will review medical concerns, medications, and tests to rule out other potential underlying conditions that can contribute to care challenges.
After reviewing your specific situation and identifying your needs and goals, your COPE team will develop a plan of care that addresses the unique challenges identified by your family. An Occupational Therapist will visit your home for up to ten (60-min) sessions to initiate problem solving, review skills learned, answer questions, and/or role play to address new challenges.

Call us at (480) 625-3867 for a free consultation and to determine eligibility.

The Research

We integrate the evidence-based principles of the COPE* Program – developed by one of the world’s leading dementia researchers, Dr. Laura Gitlin, and OT, Catherine Piersol.

The Dementia Hub by Oakwood Creative Care is the first organization in Arizona to offer this program to people with dementia, their care partners, and their families.

Learn more about the COPE model, in this video located on Drexel’s website.