Independence

How the Montessori for Ageing and Dementia Movement is Changing Care for Elders

Mandy Cheskis and Margaret Jarrell joined Greenspring Center for Lifelong Learning on their Voices of Montessori podcast to discuss Montessori for Aging and Dem...

AMI Staff | 11 April 2024
Reading time: 1 minute

Can Over-Caring 'Rob the Independence' of People with Dementia?

Care staff and families need to be mindful they don’t fall into the trap of over-caring for people with dementia, warns dementia care expert, Anne Kelly in a re...

AMI Staff | 19 August 2021
Reading time: 5 minutes

Not Just Caring, Enabling

Anne Kelly was interviewed recently for The Elder Magazine.

AMI Staff | 28 January 2020
Reading time: 7 minutes

Positive Transformation in a Montessori Long-Term Care Household

Dr. Maria Montessori wrote that “joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors o...

Jennifer Brush | 28 October 2019
Reading time: 5 minutes

Tips for Creating Signs for your Montessori Program

Cognitive mapping is our ability to visualise where we are in a certain space.It allows us to park, go into a store and find our car again, or find the bathroom...

Jennifer Brush | 10 February 2018
Reading time: 3 minutes