Dementia care is a labour of love, for adult children, family caregivers, support workers and friends. Assisting a person with dementia to maintain self-reliance and independence, while also supporting their safety and well-being is a challenging and often painful journey.
With the right tools, it is possible to enable independent living and a ‘high-quality’ self-reliance for people with dementia. Let’s see in more detail how Taskey can help.
Taskey enables independent living for people with dementia
If you are a caregiver to a person with dementia, you know it’s crucial for your loved one or client to maintain a sense of ‘normality’ through their everyday routines. By enabling you to create visual tasks with phone-based reminders to guide and schedule daily tasks, Taskey can extend the period of independent living and support psychological and physical wellness.
Taskey’s versatile task screen enables you to quickly capture media appropriate to the attention style of the unique person you are caring for, with a rich mix of visual and auditory instructions for them to follow when you are not there. This can help them:
- follow through with their routines
- improve their overall health and well being
- maintain the self-respect that comes from self-reliance.
For example
Using the Taskey app, you can send a single task or set of tasks to their phone, that can include any or all of the following:
- VIDEO: a quick video of the person you support preparing lunch while you ‘narrate’
- PHOTOS: an image of medication to be taken, add a picture of a glass of water and instructions to drink the whole glass with the medication
- AUDIO: record an encouraging voice memo, maybe "Hey Mum, don’t forget to clean up now. Pack the dishwasher and wipe down the benches – you know how you love a clean house! Remember I love you and will see you Friday 5pm at your house."
- PDF: attach a simple recipe as a PDF for easy reference.
- REMINDER SCHEDULE: for example, the phone sends a push notification daily at 8am and 12pm.
Taskey supports your peace of mind, as a carer
As a key tool in your dementia care toolkit, Taskey can significantly reduce stress and anxiety for you as a carer. With Taskey on hand to support your loved one or client to achieve the tasks essential for survival and wellbeing, you can have confidence that daily tasks are being managed ‘independently’ - even when you are not there.
Taskey is easy and mobile, and free for two contacts
Taskey enables you to send activities as tasks, phone to phone, with reminders. That’s all it does - it’s simple, and designed for mobility and accessibility.
Even better, it’s free for you to use with two contacts - that means most family caregivers will never have to pay, and support workers and their organisations can try Taskey risk-free.
If you would like to learn more about how Taskey can help, contact us today.
