Improving Behaviors

Dementia residents often exhibit difficult behaviors, due to confusion, pain, anxiety, hallucinations, adverse medication effects, or other causes. These types of behaviors are very distressing for both the residents and their families. While other facilities use medications and restraints to make their patients "easier to deal with", Silverado minimizes the use of any psychotropic medications and physical restraints are never used. Alternatively, Silverado's staff is trained to see resident behaviors as an expression of a "need" and our Behavior Intervention Program helps to uncover the cause of the agitation or other behavior. Since 2006, over 1,000 residents have had interventions to help them regain peace of mind and decrease their agitated or aggressive behaviors.