The Montessori Method

- Suitable for people with cognitive disorders.
- Promotes powerful, innovative strategies and interventions to change lives.

Are you a professional or a caregiver?

Here's how the Montessori method provides support and a solution for you in your daily life

In your interventions, you may sometimes experience a feeling of helplessness and exhaustion in supporting a person suffering from Alzheimer 's or a related disease. These problems affect several areas such as communication, social interactions, difficulties in finding one's way in space and finally behavioral problems.

Too often, the training offered and our skills are poorly adapted to reach the affected person in their reality.
This makes it difficult to improve and maintain one's abilities.
preserved which promote a more independent and enriching life for her. It is in this context that the Montessori method proves to be a powerful tool, an effective and indispensable support for you as well as for the person being helped.

This practical approach is an important step in your quest for healthy effectiveness in your interventions. It will lead you to rethink your vision of the disease and your approach.

The Montessori Alzheimer center has specialized for 10 years:

  • in the development and application of adapted Montessori principles and intervention
  • This method was initially developed by Doctor Maria Montessori 113 years ago for children with special needs.
  • adapted and produced in the 90s by Doctor Cameron Camp, psychologist and researcher.

Our Mission

Improve the quality of life of people living with cognitive disorders, stimulate preserved abilities and promote greater engagement in the community through meaningful activities.

The Principles of the Adapted Montessori Approach

Working from preserved capacities

Store outside what one's can no longer store in one's memory (visual aids).

Offer choices to always have control over one's life

Keep the person in their community and in their living environment

Create and adapt meaningful activities

Adapting the physical and social environment to enable people to fully exploit their potential

Modify one's communication to limit reactive behaviors

Promote better understanding and connection through non-verbal and sensory communication

Impact of the approach

  • On the person living with cognitive disorders:

    Promotes autonomy

    Maintain and rediscover everyday gestures

    Maintains self-esteem

    Offers communication tools

    Maintains and improves the autonomy of people with Alzheimer's

  • On families and caregivers:

    Maintaining the autonomy of the person being helped

    Decreased feeling of helplessness

    Valorization

    Reduce's intra-family tensions

    Improving communication with the person being helped

  • For healthcare establishments:

    Improves relationships between stakeholders and residents

    Decreases reactive behaviors

    Decrease in PRNs

    Increases sense of job satisfaction

    Reduce's absenteeism rate

    Creates a caring culture of support

If you are interested in our approach and would like to benefit from a customized training or conference, please do not hesitate to contact us. We adapt to your needs and availability to organize a personalized session.

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The Montessori method as a vector of change in leadership and personnel management strategies

Leaders in community care are seeking effective organizational approaches to learning, growth, and development. They believe that changes to traditional service and management practices are essential to remain competitive in an industry that rewards staff attraction and retention. The Montessori- based approach:

- demonstrated an increase in people's engagement, independence and quality of life

- this approach attracts motivated, talented and dedicated staff

- this approach leads to a real change in culture for residents, management and staff

- it reduces staff turnover, absenteeism and the use of psychotropic and sleeping pills.