Purpose: To assist people living with brain injuries to strengthen memory recall, processing skills and to help restore their maximum potential for daily living.

Our B.O.L.D program includes: Computer assisted technology, individual treatment plans written for each participant of BOLD, short term and long term memory techniques, cognition for improvement strategies, Aphasia exercises and support group activities. Guest speakers from the community come to speak to our participants on the topic of living with a brain injury.

Purpose: To inspire hope and sense of well-being by supporting caregivers and to provide an environment in which caregivers can freely exchange ideas.

Goal: To promote a healthier attitude and approach to care giving by validating the role of the caregiver and the emotional challenges. Reduce stress and guilt by learning and implementing coping skills for families.

Remember that old adage, “trouble shared is trouble halved”? A Caregiver support group is one way to share your troubles; you will be able to seek out people who are going through the same experiences that you are living with each day. In most of our support groups, you’ll talk about your problems and listen to others talk; you’ll not only get help, but you’ll be able to help others, too. Most importantly, you’ll find out that you’re not alone. You’ll feel better knowing that other people are in the same situation, and their knowledge can be invaluable, especially if they’re dealing with the same illness you are.

• People living with a family member with similar diagnosis meet at our Adult Day Care Center monthly.
• Everyone gets face-to-face contact and a chance to make new friends.
• These meetings get you out of the house, get you moving provide a social outlet, and reduce the feelings of isolation.
• Meetings are at a set time. You will need to attend them regularly to get the full benefit of the group.
• Since people in your support group are facing similar obstacles, they’ll be more familiar with sharing local resources and issues.

Purpose:Hypnotherapy Is to empower the caregivers with the tools needed to deal with the stresses of caring for a loved one diagnoses with a Progressive Illness.

Goal:
Change your mind, change you life and change how you view your circumstances.

Our trained and certified Hypnotherapist is professional, compassionate caregivers that help people by using hypnosis as a powerful, therapeutic tool. It is a therapeutic treatment, which is painless, powerful, safe, successful and very natural. Our certified practitioners provide hope for people that need to change how they cope with their love ones progressive disease, but do not feel they have the willpower or strength to do this alone.

Therapeutic or clinical hypnosis is an entirely natural conscious state people experience, which brings permanent, positive change into their lives. Because the human mind is so powerful, hypnosis accesses that power to help them achieve a healthy balance between their spirit, body and mind. It can help them have a fuller, satisfying, peaceful and more joyous life without becoming frustrated, quickly and painlessly.

Benefits:

• Caregivers will have stress relief
• A changed mind set
• Renewed and invigorated mine, body and spirit
• Power to deal with challenges
• Group therapy offered monthly at Piedmont Adult Living Services
• Regular attendance at meetings is required to get the benefits

Purpose: To assist participants living with diabetes be more informed and motivated to stay as healthy as possible.

Goal: Through education, motivation, and exercise the diabetic participant will learn how to regulate their glucose levels and keep numbers within normal range. At PALS we encourage a healthier life style.

Purpose: People living with Dementia often need someone to keep them current on world events as well as local news.

Goal: These individuals who have lost a lot of mental capacity, the threads in their life which allows them the ability to interact. Hearing the events from the newspaper, connects to the world and an environment they no longer feel involved. We at PALS feel that it is very important to keep our participants fully aware of the changing world around them by reading highlights from the newspaper a group discussion is lead about our world and community. This method of interacting keeps their minds focused on others and the community, if only for 30 minutes.

Purpose: One benefit of Remembrance Support come when lost memories or thoughts appear either verbally or as a look in their eyes. Sometimes they resurrect the memory of a forgotten house the individual lived in 40 years ago or a job as a school teacher, nurse and other professions. Sometimes memories pop out of nowhere, often things that family members haven’t heard about in years. They can tell their story and express things that otherwise would not be asked about.