Allen Cognitive Advisors: Skilled in Advising “Best Ability to Function”

 Delaune Pollard and her colleagues can assist you by:

• Focusing on optimizing the "best ability to function" of a person with deficits in functional cognition.
• Assessing people with deficits in functional cognition by using Functional Cognitive Assessment and Caregiver reporting using the Advanced Lifestyle Directive, Brief Daily Activity Pre-Guide and the Daily Life Activity Guide, all of which are relevant lifestyle profiles.  The information gained and by use of the appropriate Bodily Behavior: Measurement – Intervention Profile, which represents key behaviors that can be expected at an assessed cognitive level adds to the collective data gathered for each person assessed;
• Evaluating the performance skills of people with deficits in functional cognition, as well as assessing the activity demands of tasks they chose to do, to safely participate in life pursuits;
• Establishing through in-depth reporting what is realistic; make recommendations for assistance and environmental adaptation, while ensuring a "just right challenge" for each client assessed;
• Recommending the required assistance, goals and safety issues for each person assessed;
• Proposing the necessity for the adaptation of the human and non-human environment to allow greater independence and feelings of security and safety;
• Providing an understanding of what the person with deficits in functional cognition is still able to do safely;
• Enabling people with cognitive limitations to optimally use their abilities to safely participate in the meaningful occupations of daily life;
• Identify specific communication techniques, including scaffolding and fading, that will enable caregivers to respectfully minimize problematic behaviors;
• Identify how care plans can be designed using the Allen’s Cognitive Levels to maximize abilities within a supportive context;
• Providing a service that will assist with the preparation of care plans based on functional cognitive reports;
• Advising the percentage of assistance in hours per day to ensure continuous  care;
• Ensuring remuneration is properly matched to the care needs of the person with deficits in functional cognition.