Finding the love.
The journey of Dementia can be arduous and heart breaking. Monarch can facilitate families to finding their way back to love in all of the pain that comes with Dementia.
HELPING FAMILIES TO
Embrace the new normal.
Our passion is guiding families toward understanding, acceptance, and love for their elders with Dementia. Through Positive Approach to Care®, we can empower loved ones to better manage the challenges of Dementia and embrace the new normal.
At Monarch Care Partners, our mission is to:
Educate and empower individuals impacted by dementia
Provide tools and techniques to those who support people living with dementia
Help redefine caregiving into care partnering
Advocate with compassion as families navigate the ever-changing journey of dementia
Creating Joy.
Supporting a person living with Dementia is about connection, acceptance, and learning to thrive. Within each individual’s journey, we strive to create moments of comfort through guidance and education. Using tools from Positive Approach to Care® , we empower families to feel love and even joy as their loved one evolves with their Dementia.
Our Services
Family Consultation and Care Coordination
The first step is a one-hour consultation where we evaluate the family and the patient. This review can be a meeting with an individual and/or group of family members to provide information on referrals, aging and dementia education, and facilitate care planning assignments. Our services can include:
Collect life history information
Discuss brain changes and current acute situation
Define long term goal
Observational Hour
Meet the Person Living with Dementia
Observe PLWD in their environment
Create Dementia Report (2 hours)
Identify the characteristics of PLWD
Discuss the level of dementia
Able to use this for clinical support
Family Review
Discuss observations
Review Report
Care Assessment
This includes evaluation an older adult’s physical safety in their home, medical history, nutrition, cognition, social network and functional assessment of all activities of daily living. The process takes approximately two hours , depending on the number of family members involved in the circumstances surrounding the assessment. This can include:
Clinical Support Report
Identifies deficiency’s of PLWD that are impeding quality of life and overall well being. ( including care partner)
Identifies and defines all care partners
Reports about individual in their environment
Provides Positive Approach to Care ( PAC) skills and adaptation to support person living with dementia
Support family and Coach using PAC skills
Individual Counseling & Support
In a 1 hour consulting session I help people explore their loved one’s current situation and strength, and how we can complement clinical support with the proven communication skills and resources of Positive Approach to Care. It is also a time to help identify and troubleshoot issues within the confines of the dementia journey.
Every 1 hour consultation includes a follow up with resources based on needs.
These can be calls, zoom or in person.
Our Methods
Dementia care and counseling can mean any number of paths to better support a person living with dementia and their loved ones. Here are a few ways we can help.
.01 UNDERSTANDING
Educating families about dementia through discussion, resources, and experience.
.02 FACILITATION
Bringing families together to discuss treatment in a safe environment.
.03 TRANSFORMation
Changing caregivers to care partners, empowering the family to advocate for the person living with dementia.
.04 HONORING
I believe my job is to honor the family but most of all to love the person who is living with dementia.
.05 AWARENESS
Truly learning about the person and this is done with a set of tools that Teepa Snow calls the pieces of the puzzle.
.06 Troubleshooting
Targeting difficult behaviors and finding solutions through counseling and better understanding.
.07 PLANNING
Creating an individual education and care plan for the family.
08. COACHING
I work with families and nurses to gain skills that will help them support people living with dementia.
09. COUNSELING
Through life expereince and learned methods, I can assist families in processing the challenge of dementia.
“
NOVEMber 2019
Debbie Kroner was a gift to my family! She met my father where he was, and taught me so many valuable tools to make him feel safe. Deb helped us all feel a bit better knowing he was understood, loved and cared for.”
Deborah, Daughter of Hank
Our Story
Monarch Care Partners began as one daughter’s road to embracing her mother’s illness.
Debbie’s path to Dementia care began with her own mother’s battle with Dementia.
Founder Debbie Kroner
Debbie Kroner is a certified Dementia consultant and practitioner. Her career in Gerontology and education has been a cumulative journey. Using her education background and her empathetic approach to care, Debbie has committed to becoming an advocate for people and families living with Dementia. Through Monarch Care Partners, she is supporting families as they learn the new normal of life with Dementia.