About The Book

How to Begin Using Allen's Cognitive Levels covers an extensive range of information in a concise, straightforward way.

For those who have a scratchy understanding of the theory and practice, this book is a good starting point to begin a journey into exploring the incredible benefits the model provides for clients and their caregivers. If clinicians have heard of the model but have never ventured into deciphering the application of the theory, then this book will serve to refresh and expand their knowledge.

This book is written for the benefit of all healthcare clinicians no matter what stage of clinical practice they have reached, including entry level practitioners/students. It covers a broad range of information in a concise way. The experienced clinician will find this book a valuable training resource.

When working with people with deficits in functional cognition it is crucial to have an appreciation of the underlying cognitive processes, which determine how people can do daily life activities. Following assessment and clinical observation of how a client/patient/resident does daily activities, contextual factors can be gathered and blended to form a unique word picture and contribute to a comprehensive report. Recommendations for environmental changes can then be made and suitable programs developed. The World Health Organization ‘International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health’ and the abbreviated ‘ICF’ (WHO 2001) provide a framework which allows the blending and application of all components in a practical manner to produce positive outcomes. The use of an adapted ICF framework for developing a care plan gives care providers a wealth of knowledge, as to what type of and how much assistance is required for each person on a daily basis.

By using the information from this clinical book in conjunction with other related publications, healthcare clinicians will eventually accumulate sufficient 'know how' to be able to apply the model to an array of different workplace settings.

Chapter 1: Develop a working knowledge of the Allen's Cognitive Levels

The way the brain works as a global unit and the effects of deficits in functional cognition have on body functions are explained within the different segments. The history of the cognitive levels and modes of performance are explained and the theory is compared with traditional forms of cognitive assessments. Explanations are provided about how to identify people's best ability to function; what memories are important to allow people to use their well-learnt skills; sense of self; bodily behavior, including difficult behavior; reduced processing speed; fluctuations in abilities; and the impact functional cognition has on anything people 'do'.

Chapter 2: Using the cognitive levels

This chapter describes how healthcare clinicians can begin using the cognitive levels by reading, observing and doing activities with people who have deficits in functional cognition. Segment 2-2, details the sort of information required to structure the environment, allowing people with deficits in functional cognition to function to their best ability. Explanation is given about recurring patterns of behavior and how those patterns can be observed as people go about their everyday life.

Chapter 3: Applying a culture of blended care

In this chapter functional cognition is incorporated with contextual factors (environmental and personal) which provide a support milieu for people to live meaningful lives while being assisted to use their best ability to function. To be able to do this in practice it is important to use a unified and standard language and a framework. The World Health Organization ‘International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health’ and the abbreviated ‘ICF’ (WHO 2001) provides both.

Appendix one has a very comprehensive and detailed, easy to read and assimilated descriptions of each of the Allen's level.modes. There are 79 pages in this appendix with each level preceded by a color coded page including a suggested interim format for reports on 25 levels. Each report is exceptionally comprehensive.

Appendix two is a cooking activity with simple, easy to follow instructions, allowing participation in a useful, meaningful activity, which is eminently suitable for people who have a deficit in functional cognition between level.mode 3.0 and 4.8.

Appendix three is a 'Remembering Difficulties Data Gathering Instrument', which is in separated into three parts, one part for each of sources of information.

The appendices are followed by a glossary, a full list of references and an index.


The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) for this book is:
ISBN  9780980557510 (pbk.)
The National Library of Australia, Cataloguing-in-Publication Data:
Allen Cognitive Disability Theory (Test).

Cognition--Testing.

Disability evaluation.

Dewey Number:  153

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"Only a life lived for others is worth living" – Albert Einstein (1879 –1955).

About The Book

The purpose of this 432 page book, which is a revised and greatly expanded 2nd edition of the 2002 publication “Midlife’s Challenge: Understanding and Coping with Decline in Thinking and Behavior”, is to provide caregivers with up-to-date information. It explains what happens to them as a consequence of their unrelenting responsibilities and duties as caregivers, including the emotional and physiological effects. It contains detailed descriptions of what happens neuro-biologically to people with deficits in functional cognition and relates true to life stories which demonstrate and provide understanding of the cognitive patterns of functional performance. These patterns are linked to the whole of brain activity and how the whole brain ‘lights-up’ when learning new information

In this book the readers are given to understand the different and uncharacteristic behavior of their relatives are not knowingly mean, selfish or planned, but are symptoms of deficits in functional cognition.  The deficits that are described are akin to baby development milestones in reverse (Echoes theoretical tenet of reversed ontogenesis - Levy, 2005).  The different levels and behavior are predictable patterns of motor and verbal skills, social behavior, self awareness and awareness of context (circumstances in which an event occurs) - Earhart (2006).

With the development of the functional cognition terminology has come a greater understanding of how people with deficits in functional cognition struggle to live in a complex ever-changing environment.

This book answers the many ‘why’ questions about what is happening to the health of informal caregivers caused by physiological stress and how the people they are caring for are trying to cope on a daily basis when they are not able to use higher cognitive processes of the brain. The wealth of knowledge in this book has been provided to relieve much of the incredible stress which will be generated and prepare family members for the transfer and increase in future caring responsibilities.

Although much has been written in the past explaining the psychological support available for caregivers, very little has been written explaining the effects of physiological stress and what can be done to reduce the inflammatory responses which occur within the body.

Caregivers: Drowning in a Sea of Cognitive Challenges is the one book designed for wider publication which describes what is really happening to the brains of people with cognitive deficit, including:

• why their ‘sense of self’ is so fragile and why they must protect themselves preventing them from having empathy for others and constantly say “I want this” or “You made me do that”;
• why inherited personality traits influence their physical and emotional behavior and the way they ‘act out’ even if they mishear what has been said to them;
• why it is impossible to change the way they do daily tasks including such things as not understanding how much pressure they need to apply to a tube of toothpaste to place a small amount on a brush. This can be highly frustrating and distressing to caregivers particularly if they are on a pension as they see money being wasted;
• why denial is their constant companion – constant denial there is anything wrong with them. Even if they say my memory is going, if the caregiver suggests they give up driving a car, they will flatly deny anything is wrong with their driving;
• why being hurtful, and at times verbally and physically abusive occurs when their fragile ‘sense of self’ is threatened.
• why the people with cognitive deficits begin a process of reversed ontogenesis which presents as a reversal of development. How cognitive deficits produce observable ‘backward slide’ patterns which affect the way people go about their everyday tasks.
• why they are so much slower in everything they do.

If your answer to one or more of these questions is ‘yes’, then Caregivers: Drowning in a Sea of Cognitive Challenges has been written for you, the middle aged caregiver who has become unwittingly sandwiched between two generations, as you struggle to cope with the needs of young family members, while assisting and trying to understand ‘how and why’ a member of the family is being so uncharacteristically different in the way they live their lives and communicate with others.  This book explains their behavior.
The content of the book has equal relevance for the younger generation who are or may well face similar challenges in the future. The eleven chapters in this book provide information for all readers:

Chapter 1
outlining in detail how caregivers can become overwhelmed as they search for answers to the perplexing situations which are generated as they go about performing their caregiving roles. This chapter provides detailed information which empowers individual caregivers with the knowledge they are not alone in caring for an adult member in their family.

Chapter 2
attends to what biologically occurs to brain function when there is damage to the brain and explains how associated patterns of performance are observed as deficits in functional cognition. The intention of this chapter is to provide caregivers with evidence and understanding that the person they are caring for is not being intentionally mean or uncooperative. This chapter begins the journey to assist caregivers to develop a sense of self-efficacy to continue with their caregiving roles. 

Chapter 3
takes an in-depth look at the brain’s ability to functionally process information, and how inherited behavioral traits have such a huge impact on why people behave in the way they do. What’s more, this chapter discusses the uniqueness of each individual person and the way their brains constantly and continually update and process information about them and their relationships with the immediate environment. It discusses how the fragility of ‘self’ becomes apparent when brain processes begin to breakdown, fall apart, and in some cases fail. This fragility of ‘self’ leaves people who are affected with no other option than to protect what they have as they try to make sense of their perception of reality.

Chapter 4
discusses what occur when the brain’s ability to work as a global unit is compromised and the fragile inner ‘self’ is threatened causing the person to ‘act out’ against their informal caregiver. It explains how emotions and feelings are linked to brain structures and how a person with deficits in functional cognition must preserve ‘self’. Once caregivers begin to understand the many behaviors they observe are biological and cannot be changed, it is a huge relief for them, particularly for caregivers who are assisting people with minimal cognitive deficits who continually defend their self-image and sense of worth.

Chapter 5
focus on how people with deficits in functional cognition make sense of their world when they do not have the higher cognitive functions of the brain to solve problems, understand intangible elements or hold visual images. Both chapters 4 and 5 contain real life stories which illustrate how different caregivers manage the many diverse problems and situations they encounter while caring for people. These individual stories are of people who have been assessed as functioning at different level.modes on the scale of 26 modes on the Cognitive Level Scale.

Chapter 6
addresses the personality traits which influence why people become informal caregivers and accept the enormous challenges of assisting two or more family members simultaneously. The reasons why some people have empathy and others do not are discussed as well as why some people develop a hyper-empathetic personality which can take over their life disrupting the balance in their lives. Many of the stories concern how caregivers have managed to deal with highly complex situations and what strengths they were able to pull on to see them through their caregiving roles.

Chapter 7
deals with strategies which can be used for people with deficits in functional cognition who display different patterns of performance on the Cognitive Level Scale. Knowing how to communicate effectively, choosing and using words appropriately, is a very special skill, essential if caregivers are to be successful in their care for others. Effective communication can make a huge difference to the building up of a positive and trusting relationship between informal caregivers and those in their care.

Chapter 8
describes stress and the serious effects it can have on the health and wellbeing of adults who become informal caregivers. It is well documented caregivers suffer from high levels of emotional distress including anxiety, resentment, anger, fear, helplessness, guilt and despair. Sleep deprivation and physically debilitating conditions, such as back pain and muscle tension also contribute to the burden of caregivers. Emotional and psychological stresses are well known but the sinister affects of physiological stress which can cause inflammation within the body, particularly in people who are diagnosed with caregiver syndrome.

Chapter 9
draws attention to stress reduction techniques including maintaining a positive approach to life and being aware of the intensity of emotional reactions to difficult situations. Many techniques described can be achieved in and around the home environment; they are low cost and suitable to be used by informal caregivers who live in isolated areas.

Chapter 10
emphasizes the need for people to function to the best of their ability in the least restrictive environment. Human and non-human compensatory measures are suggested which would provide cues appropriate to people’s individual environments. Home modifications are suggested which would make daily activities less stressful and easier to manage and give greater peace of mind to caregivers knowing the person they are caring for is in a safer environment.

Finally, Chapter 11
highlights the need for informal caregivers to prepare and plan for the future while at the same time ensuring their lives are kept in balance. The stories in this chapter are included to bring some light relief; a sense of humor can provide a wonderful respite from the seriousness encountered in many real life situations. The appendices include six appendixes which provide additional information, and some heighten the need for important documentation and environmental changes to be put in place.

This book includes sixty illustrations and many quotes notated by the author in the margins of the pages. The illustrations and quotes have been included to provide variety and encouragement, and to prompt and encourage people who are visual learners to continue with their research and reading. It is not always easy to read a scientific reference book of this type unless there is some form of novelty and encouragement to do so.

This book will appeal to:

• Middle-aged people, who are caught in the unexpected role of caring for relatives with deficits in functional cognition;
• Readers of Healthcare and Lifestyle Books, who are concerned for their future health needs and have a desire to remain self-reliant;
• Healthcare Clinicians, Community Care Organizations and Caregiver Associations, who assist caregivers or work with people with deficits in functional cognition which can manifest from any diagnosis, where normal brain function is compromised;
• International readers, as the subject matter is a human neuro-biological condition evident worldwide in all races and cultures. The greatest need for people to read this book exists in highly populated societies e.g. USA, United Kingdom, Europe, India, China and Japan, where assistance and care for a growing number of people with cognitive failures has become a placement and funding nightmare;
• Owners, Employees and Volunteers of Aged Care Facilities, who struggle to understand the thinking and behavior of many of the people who live in these facilities;
• Community non-for-profit organizations, who assist as best they can those people with deficits in functional cognition;
• For all those people who desire to know ‘Why?’

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The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) for this book:
ISBN  978-0-9805575-0-3 (pbk.)
The National Library of Australia, Cataloguing-in-Publication Data:

1. Caregivers.
2. Caregivers-Effect of aging parents on.
3. Adult children-Mental health.
4. Cognitive psychology.
5. Mentally ill-Family relationships.
6. Older people-Mental health.
7. Older people-Care.
8. Occupational therapy.

Dewey Number: 305.244

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About The Book

This is an easy guide for use when scanning information concerning each Allen Cognitive Level.Mode of Function. It provides information on the primary concepts and terminology, which inter-mesh the Allen Cognitive Levels with the Dynamic Complex Theory, giving a broader perspective and interaction between occupational and physical therapists and the ever-changing experiences of their clients.

The inclusion in the guide of comparison scales, with two page devoted to describing each of the levels.modes therein, allows users to quickly obtain the information they require. The information on each cognitive level.mode has been colour coded, with a total of six colours, each colour representing a level.mode. Michele Stanley and Debbie Olin, Continuum of Care Consultants, developed the colour coding system to simplify the cognitive levels for personal care staff. For consistency, Claudia Allen (2000) requested that anyone using the ACL as a basis for programming use the same colour coding system.

The guide is a particularly useful tool to use in hospitals, residential care facilities and other health care environments, and when documenting information in official charts. It allows health care professionals to make client focused decisions that provide the ‘Just Right Challenge’ in the ‘Least Restrictive Environment’. 

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) for this book is:

• ISBN 0 9750482 1 X

The National Library of Australia, Cataloguing-in-Publication Data is:

• 1. Allen Cognitive Disability Theory (Test). 2. Cognition – Testing. 3. Disability evaluation. 1 Title.
• 153

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About The Book

Empowering Caregivers: Relevant Lifestyle Profiles, 2nd Edition is a clinical book that focuses on ‘Functional Cognition’ and the development of the cognitive levels, which have been at the core of the working life of Claudia Kay Allen.  This book is comprised of 98 pages and has a CD with three data gathering forms and three sets of five forms to be used for scoring for use by healthcare clinicians. The data gathering tool ‘Advanced Lifestyle Directive’ is intended to gather personal factors that contribute to the formation of the ‘word story’.  The other two data gathering tools, ‘Brief Daily Life Activities Pre-Guide Checklist’ and the more substantial ‘Daily Life Activities Guide’, are designed to allow primary caregivers to play a role in providing information gathered from watching, noting and/or asking the person with cognitive disability what they are attempting to do. The healthcare clinicians report forms including the Brief Daily Life Activity (DLA) Pre-Guide and the five individual Daily Life Activities Guide - Caregiver Generated Relevant Profiles have been developed to slot into personal files of people with deficits in functional cognition.

Throughout this book the endeavor has been to walk clinicians and caregivers through the processes for using the data gathering instruments which, in turn, will benefit their understanding of functional cognition in everyday practice.  In all instances the data gathering proformae are designed to save precious time and to assist primary caregivers unable to access healthcare services because of the need to travel long distances, the vastness of the country they live in and/or the scarcity of therapists available to service the area in which they live in their country of origin. Further more the information in this book will allow healthcare clinicians who are hard pressed for time, to assist people living in isolated regions and provide primary caregivers with a sense of self efficacy due to the invaluable observations they can make as they go about their caregiving roles.

‘Empowering Caregivers: the Relevant Lifestyle Profiles’ has been designed to capture the life experiences, encompassing responses to both genetic and environmental influences which are critical determinants of personality. These two components combined with ‘unique experiences’, life long habits, routines and rituals do have an influence on how the adult person will accept therapy, assistance, and other support. Therefore, it is vitally important that healthcare clinicians conduct preliminary briefings for informal caregivers (family members and/or close friends) so that they have a firm and accurate basis for the design of both effective care plans and therapy treatment goals.

The two chapters in this book gives the reader an understanding of the theory and research that has occurred in 'the understanding of personal factors, which all or any of which may play a role in disability at any level', this is a quote from the World Health Organisations, International Classifications of Functioning, Disability and Health, (WHO, ICF- 2001).

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) for this book is:

• ISBN  9780975048245 (hbk.).

The National Library of Australia, Cataloguing-in-Publication Data is:

• 1. Cognitive disorders – Patients -Care. 2. Caregivers – Psychology. 1 Title.
• 362.1968

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This publication explains how bodily behavior can be highly problematic, and how people with cognitive disability become even more difficult to handle when frontal lobe inhibitions are released. The compulsion to preserve “self” dominates all their thoughts and actions, making it so hard for formal and informal caregivers to understand that in a person with cognitive disability, the innate need to be absorbed in self-interest has origins in underlying biological causes. 

A Cognitive Link: Managing Problematic Bodily Behavior has been written for health care professionals and caregivers who need to fully understand how bodily behavior can be cognitively restricted by brain pathology and what needs to be done to allow people to function to the best of their ability. There is a fine balance between doing too much and only assisting when an action, or step, is beyond the cognitive ability of a person trying to complete a task.

The book is organized into five chapters with the fifth chapter divided into two parts, the first part explains how to use the individual forms representing each of the Allen Cognitive Level.modes. The second part of the fifth chapter consists of the “Measurement of Bodily Behavior – Intervention Forms: 25 Allen Cognitive Level.modes”. To gain a greater understanding of the Allen Cognitive Levels, it is advisable to read this book in conjunction with the publication, “Allen Cognitive Levels: meeting the Challenges of Client Focused Services”. Both books have been written for health care professionals working in the tertiary, primary and community care sectors.

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THREE CLINICAL BOOKS – Allen’s Cognitive Levels: Meeting the Challenges of Client Focused Services (2nd edition) & A Cognitive Link: Managing Problematic Behavior & Empowering Caregivers: Relevant Lifestyle Profiles (2nd edition) with CD.

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Large Allen Cognitive Levels Screening Tool (Lacls) Kit

The Large Allen Cognitive Level Screen (LACLS) is part of a body of functional cognitive assessments. This screening tool was designed to provide an initial estimate of cognitive function. The score from the screen is then validated by further observations of performance. The soft leather lacing pouch attached to the back is used to store the laces and needles when transporting to different assessment locations. This assessment fits well into an A4 sized diary.

Package contains: The leather lacing square and pocket piece; 2 leather lacing needles, 2 leather lacing pieces, 1 piece of boot lacing and a copy of the fourth edition of the screening tool manual.

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About The Book

In this book the readers are given to understand that the different and uncharacteristic behaviour of their relatives are not knowingly mean, selfish or planned, but are symptoms of a cognitive disability. The disability is referred to as a "backward slide", which is akin to baby development milestones in reverse.  The different levels of and behaviour are associated with cognitive disability.

The book has been specifically written for the general public to inform them of the plight of so many elderly people, who have cognitive disability (the "backward slide"). Though this book specifically targets the elderly, many readers will be able to relate some of the stories and situations to younger adults, as no age group is exempt from acquiring cognitive disability.

DO YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY UNDERSTANDING:

• Why your elderly relative can be so insensitive and difficult?
• Why they do not take any notice of your well-meaning advice?
• Why they cannot do what they say they can do?

If your answer to one or more of these questions is ‘yes’, then Midlife’s Challenge has been written for you, the adult child becomes unwittingly sandwiched between two generations, as you struggle to cope with the needs of young family members, whilst assisting and trying to understand ‘how and why’ elderly relatives are being so uncharacteristically different in the way they live their lives and communicate with others. This book explains their behaviour.

The contents however, have equal relevance for the younger generation who may well face similar challenges in the future. The following chapters will provide information to all readers. The eight chapters in this book provide information for all readers:

Chapter 1
outlines how a decline in cognition can begin, the concerns and fears felt by middle-aged family members and the processes they go through to try to get answers to questions about what is happening to their elderly relatives. Also, how the ever widening gulf between the elderly and their families, due to the rapid change in today’s lifestyle and the development of information and technology, which can be so overwhelming, is leaving so many elderly behind and forcing them to depend more and more on their adult children for help in sorting out their affairs. In addition, how this situation is further compounded by healthier lifestyles and longer lives and the need for middle-aged family members to provide ongoing assistance for many more years than required in the past. Further, that having high verbal skills and a store of knowledge and experiences does not give the elderly any advantage when they are faced with the need to adapt to a new situation. This chapter ends by describing the feelings of middle-aged family members in their unexpected caring roles, and points out that the reactions of their elderly relatives, even the most aggressive and rude, are natural reactions.

Chapter 2
describes the first signs of a “"backward slide", what is occurring, and how and why it has occurred. This leads into chapter 3, which describes the biological process.

Chapter 3
takes an in-depth (fleeting and simple in neurological terms) look at the brain processes that are affected, and how various attributes of being human are disrupted, by a ‘"backward slide"’. Particular reference is made to ‘out of character’ behavioural responses.

Chapter 4
contains life stories pertaining to different levels/modes of functional performance. The stories start with the functional level/mode of an elderly man who has a very minimal cognitive deficit, and each successive story illustrates the functional level of people at each subsequent level/mode and how middle-aged family members have handled the different situations.

Chapter 5
contains four stories of middle aged carers who are confronted with the responsibility of having to assist with the care of two or more members of their families who have been subjected to varying degrees of “"backward slide". These stories are included to demonstrate to the reader the complex problems associated with cognitive disabilities and the ramifications for family carers. The stories also illustrate the feelings of despair that family carers experience when the legal system fails to support their concerns for their elderly loved ones.

Chapter 6
describes the stress which primary carers experience and the need for them to understand the serious effects it has personally upon them, as well as the need for them to give priority to their own health and well being if they are to successfully get through this exacting phase of their lives.

Chapter 7
examines the alternatives available to family members for communicating with and handling ageing relatives who are performing at different levels/modes, including those with difficult personalities. There is also a dot point reference list of handling techniques available to family members.
Appendix 1 to Chapter 7 is a “Guide to Handling Approaches” for reference .

Chapter 8
provides advice on the steps that can be taken by middle-aged carers to lessen the burden of care and points out the immediate need for them to understand and critically examine their own futures, for they too are ageing and need to plan ahead. If, for them, future plans include moving or renovation, decisions must be made that will, as far as possible, minimise a "backward slide". Finally, this chapter concludes with some amusing stories, which illustrate the necessity for middle-aged carers to see the funny side of their caring experiences and maintain their sense of humour.
Appendix 2 to Chapter 8 is “A Safety Issues List to Ponder and to Consider” for reference.

This book will appeal to:

• Middle-aged people, who are caught in the unexpected role of caring for ageing relatives.
• Readers of Healthcare and Lifestyle Books, who are concerned for their future health needs and have a desire to remain self-reliant.
• Healthcare Professionals, Community Care Organisations and Carers Associations, not all pertaining to aged care, as a cognitive disability can manifest from any diagnosis, where normal brain function is compromised.
• International readers, as the subject matter is a human neuro-biological condition evident worldwide in all races and cultures. The greatest need for people to read this book exists in highly populated democratic societies eg USA, United Kingdom, Europe and Japan, where assistance and care for a growing number of people with cognitive failures has become a placement and funding nightmare.
• Owners, Employees and Volunteers of Aged Care Facilities, who struggle to understand the thinking and behaviour of many of their consumers.
• Community Care Organisations and Carers Associations, who assist as best they can those people with cognitive disabilities.
• For all those people who desire to know ‘Why?’

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