Dignity

• Positivity: Encourage the person to use their skills and abilities to succeed and to master new skills.
• Respectful: Respect each person’s choices, wishes and capacities.
• Meaningful: Create meaning in the life of each person by helping them give to and share with others.
• Relational: Reinforce relationship with care partners.

Engagement

• Acceptance: Engage the full person – they are still there.
• Creative: Use the arts and all the senses to engage persons living with dementia.
• Inclusive: Include and involve all care partners in programs and activities.
• Open-minded: Employ all methods to reduce medications.

Community

• Comprehensive: Reach persons with dementia living at home and in other settings.
• Involved: Include all persons living with dementia in their communities.
• Inventive: Take advantage of existing community resources.

Education

• Encouragement: Help everyone living with dementia to learn and grow.
• Enlighten: Inform individual & community partners in positive new ways to engage persons living with dementia.