The COPE Program
Dementia Coaching Sessions
A Better Quality Of Life
Is Within Reach…
Contact us using the button below to discuss your unique situation and how COPE can make life at home easier for you and your loved one.
Care Partners, Spark Joy At Home
Alongside Your Loved One 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 Care Partner 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 Occupational Therapist and Physician Assistant 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 Dementia Coaching Sessions program, you’ll have better tools, strategies, and information to make life easier for you, the care partner, and your loved one living with dementia.
Bring Back The JOY with Aging, Through Practical Strategies To Overcome:
Anxiety/Fear • Arguing • Bathing Challenges • Exit Seeking or Wandering • Boredeom • Repeating •
Misunderstanding of Dementia • Care Partner Overwhelm or Burnout •
Call us at 480-361-9791 for a free consultation and to determine eligibility.
Enhance quality of life for yourself and your loved one
Support families navigating dementia at home
Reduce stress levels for the care partner & family
Build confidence to redirect challenging behaviors
Increase involvement in daily care
Home safety modifications to your specific needs
COPE Program: What to Expect
- We’ll meet with you and your loved one living with dementia, in your home, to determine the needs, abilities, strengths and challenges of your family.
- The Occupational Therapist will conduct a comprehensive assessment over the course of two 90-minute visits to your home. Information gathered from these assessments will be used to develop specific and custom goals to focus on in the sessions ahead.
- Our Physician’s Assistant will review medical concerns, medications, and complete a blood and urinalysis test to rule out other underlying conditions that might be contributing to care challenges.
- Your COPE Team will create a custom plan of care that addresses the unique challenges identified by the family. The Occupational Therapist will meet with your family for up to ten sessions (60 minutes each) over the course of approximately 3 months to initiate problem solving, review skills learned, answer questions, and/or role play to address new challenges.
Call us at 480-361-9791 for a free consultation and to determine eligibility.
Learn More About COPE
COPE is an evidence-based program founded by Drexel University. 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.
Care Partner Support At The Dementia Hub
Monika “Mo” Lukasiewicz
COPE Occupational Therapist
Monika is a C.O.P.E.-trained occupational therapist “COPE OT” with over 20,000 patient encounters (including at least 6,000 home visits) in 13 years of home-based, outpatient, ICU, acute care, and acute rehab healthcare. Additionally, she is a writer, guest lecturer, and “connector” in the OT field. After falling in love with home-based occupational therapy about 7 years ago, Monika now provides cutting edge, evidence-based occupational therapy to address dementia in the home. She uses the research of world renown Dr. Laura Gitlin and Cathy Piersol’s C.O.P.E Program and is also certified in Skills2care. Her goal is to revitalize her community (personal and professional) through an equally revitalized understanding of occupational therapy and to inspire practical use of research-backed principles in dementia care in Arizona. Monika is a member of AOTA, ArizOTA, LIPI and the Dementia Collaborative’s Dementia Squad.
Riley Hooks
Physician Assistant (MS, PA-C)
Riley is a physician assistant “PA” who has over 40,000 patient encounters in 8 years of primary, urgent care, and housecall medicine. He fell in love with housecall medicine about 5 years ago and continues to provide primary, urgent, geriatric, and pediatric care in home. His goal is to obtain a full picture of his patients, accounting for their living situation, caregiver/family dynamics, and hobbies and interests. Riley has a substantial background in working with and managing dementia care, and is excited to be a part of the COPE program.
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Oakwood Creative Care is the first location in Arizona offering the COPE Program. This project was supported, in part by grant number 90ADPI0083, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, DHHS, Washington, D.C. 20201